Quotes of the Week

It does make me wonder, with all those people in the theater, was there nobody that was carrying a gun that could have stopped this guy more quickly?

U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Tyler, after a mass killing in Aurora, Colo.

The other side is convinced that the Tea Party is irrelevant and a bunch of nut jobs. That's what they think of us. They think we're off our rockers.

Ted Cruz, talking to a group in Garland, quoted by Reuters

Senator Patrick in no way speaks for the Advisory Committee to the TEA Party Caucus. The Dewhurst campaign today seizing on Patrick’s endorsement as some kind of TEA Party prize is premature and nothing but desperate spin.

JoAnn Flemming, chairwoman of the Legislature's Tea Party Caucus Advisory Committee, on Patrick's endorsement of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in the U.S. Senate race

I consider how I vote a private matter. Either David Dewhurst or Ted Cruz are going to be solid conservative votes in the Senate. I agree with those who say that probably 99 percent of the time they would vote the same on any given issue, and look forward to working with whoever wins.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn to The Dallas Morning News

It's going to be a dogfight. It's going to be a light turnout, and it's just whichever candidate can pull more people out of their air-conditioned houses and go vote.

Sen. Jeff Wentworth, R-San Antonio, on runoff voting, in the San Antonio Express-News