Texas students shouldn't lose instruction time for holding gun-shaped Pop-Tart snacks at school. This bill will fix this.

State Rep. Ryan Guillen, D-Rio Grande City, on his legislation protecting kids who choose to nibble their favorite pastry into the shape of firearms

I really think it’s an answer to prayer that the 5th circuit has put a stay on the execution.

Pat Nolan, director of the American Conservative Union Foundation’s Center for Criminal Justice Reform and one of a group of social conservatives opposed to the execution of mentally ill death row inmate Scott Panetti

That idea would go about as far as I would go flying in the air jumping off a tall building. It’s straight down, baby.

Austin lobbyist Bill Miller, assessing the odds of making Texas House Speaker a statewide elected office

He reflects so well on Abbott. It’s like when you meet somebody’s spouse, and that spouse impacts your opinion of the other person. I think it’s the same thing with them.

State Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, on Gov.-elect Greg Abbott's right-hand man, Daniel Hodge

I asked an old lady who had known him well, and she said, 'He might have been a murderer, a robber and a thief, but he was good at heart.'

Jack Skiles, author of a book on Judge Roy Bean, on the contradictory legacy of the West Texas lawman