We need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized.

Ted Cruz, offering an immediately controversial suggestion on how the U.S. should proceed in reaction to this week's terrorist attacks in Brussels

I prefer John Kasich; Cruz is not my first pick by any choice.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, announcing his decision last week to endorse Ted Cruz for president

Keeping attention on the exploding use of dark money is laudable. Getting a disclosure amendment to the ballot in the face of active opposition from the governor and lieutenant governor is politically impossible.

Texans for Public Justice's Craig McDonald, on House State Affairs Chairman Byron Cook's stated intent to purse a constitutional amendment requiring disclosure of "dark money" political donors

That's private medical information. I'm not going to share that with you. But it's worked out good.

Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller to the Houston Chronicle on a controversial anti-inflammatory treatment called the "Jesus Shot." After initially billing taxpayers for the cost of a trip to Oklahoma where he may have received the shot, he later reimbursed the state for the cost of the trip.