This is a classic example of how something can escalate out of control very quickly by the actions of the officers, not by what was going on.

Peter Schulte, criminal defense attorney and former McKinney police officer, on the officer there who pulled to the ground a 15-year-old girl outside a pool party

This is our city. The issue we have in McKinney is not only a racism issue; it’s a classism issue.

Derrick Golden, pastor at Amazing Church in McKinney, at a march a few days after the pool party incident

It’s not plausible that 177 people, there was probable cause to arrest them.

Attorney Randall Kallinen on the mass arrests following the deadly shootout last month between bikers in Waco

We do that in the House, too — we send each other big flaming bags of junk.

House Speaker Joe Straus this week on bills that arrive from the other chamber "late and in bad shape"

Anyone in Texas has full right to say that it's the center of the universe.

Astrophysicist (and UT-Austin graduate) Neil deGrasse Tyson addressing in a radio interview with KUT whether Texas truly is the center of the universe