Quotes of the Week

If Democrats were cheating on elections, don't you think we'd be winning a few of 'em?

Democratic strategist Harold Cook, on GOP election reforms, quoted in the San Antonio Express-News

If somebody thinks I’m dead, I need to get a movie career. Vampires and zombies are pretty popular these days.

Rep. Wayne Smith, R-Baytown, telling the Houston Chronicle about a letter from election officials asking if he was still alive 

There's been a 'Waiting for Godot' nature in terms of Democrats and Latinos here.

Jim Henson, director of UT's Texas Politics Project, in The New York Times

As far as I’m concerned, that’s up to the people of Missouri. I’ve done everything I know how to do.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn on whether the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which he chairs, plans to help embattled Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin

I've got to get the message out of how extreme his position is. I am the mainstream candidate.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Paul Sadler on Republican opponent Ted Cruz, quoted in the San Angelo Standard-Times

Do you think these people are there at 3 in the morning to win toilet paper or roasters as a prize?

Duval County Treasurer Robert Elizondo, quoted by the Associated Press on whether 8-liner machines there operate legally