Maybe he can talk about Texas' higher crime rate, the higher murder rate, and higher assault rate. Also, low educational achievement.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, a Democrat, responding to Gov. Rick Perry bringing his job-poaching tour to New York and Connecticut

It feels partisan and it’s misguided, as far as I’m concerned.

Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg on Gov. Rick Perry's veto of funding for her office, as quoted in the Austin American-Statesman

Immigrants create far more businesses than native-born Americans. Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference in Washington

We made some mistakes. I had a brand-new team [that] didn’t get me.

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, on why he lost last year's U.S. Senate race, in The Dallas Morning News

When the cheese is on the table, the rats come out.

Stephen Phillips, an exonorated former convict whose ex-wife is suing for a share of the money awarded him for false imprisonment

What really infuriates me is his staff doesn't know how to read the legislation. He got bad advice.

Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, on Rick Perry's veto of his gun training bill for school employees

I will bet him a steak dinner the House gets its business done.

House Speaker Joe Straus, quote in the Quorum Report on Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst's worrying that the session clock is running out. Dewhurst went to an Austin steakhouse for dinner earlier in the week during the Senate debate on abortion legislation