Quotes of the Week

What the Republicans don’t realize right now is that we are where the Democrats were when they lost it 25 years ago.

Land Commissioner and lite guv candidate Jerry Patterson, telling the Waco Tribune-Herald that the GOP is in more trouble than the party realizes

I don’t not enjoy him. I just think he’s a combination between Barnum & Bailey, Pappy O’Daniel and Huey Long all thrown into one.

Patterson in the same interview making it clear he is not fond of rival lite guv candidate Dan Patrick

It’s very safe to say Texas has just become a major player in the 2016 primaries.

Republican Party of Texas Chairman Steve Munisteri on the impact of the national party's efforts to shorten the presidential nominating process

The farther right that sliver of the electorate slides, the farther out to la-la land the candidates have to go to reach them. So you get what we had in Dallas the other night.

Houston Chronicle columnist Lisa Falkenberg, assessing the relationship of GOP primary voters and last week's televised debate between the GOP candidates for lieutenant governor

This campaign is committing a lot of unforced errors. She has to start worrying that if she continues to have these types of campaign missteps, that donors as well as voters are going to begin to lose faith in the campaign.

Rice University political scientist Mark P. Jones on the long-term dangers to Wendy Davis' bid for governor

Now, almost no one in Brazil knows who they are, and 90 percent of the people can’t pronounce it correctly. But these were the guys who did ‘Bad Moon Rising.’ I am honored to be named for such artistic geniuses.

Creedence Clearwater Couto, whom The New York Times highlighted as an example of Brazilians' creativity in naming their offspring