Quotes of the Week

This is all about the November elections and getting votes from people who are illegally here.

U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Tyler, on the Obama administration's recent suspension of the deportation of some illegal immigrants

Just as I use the post office, I use government highways, I use the banks, I use the federal reserve system, but that doesn’t mean you can’t work to remove this in the same way on Social Security. In the same way with Social Security, I am trying to make a transition.

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, who collects Social Security and is also urging young people to opt out of it, on MSNBC

There are all these drug addicts, drug dealers, people who do nothing in the United States, and you’re going to kick people like me out. Why?

Tomás Isidoro, a carpenter deported to Mexico after 25 years in the U.S., along with his U.S.-born children, in The New York Times 

You’re preaching to the choir.

Outgoing Rep. Scott Hochberg, D-Houston, to superintendents expressing concerns about a rule calling for high school students’ end-of-course exams to count for 15 percent of their final grades

This is something that could not have happened without Barack Obama and Rick Perry.

Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp on securing a $286 million contract for a federal biosecurity center