Quotes of the Week

We shouldn’t even be having to have this debate in America. It’s common decency. We owe it to the women of America and the girls in our schools.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, doubling down at the RPT state convention on Thursday on his call for the Fort Worth ISD superintendent to resign over new guidelines on transgender students

Ted is a true conservative. He deserves our enduring respect. Now, Ted may have come up short, but that does not end the war.

Gov. Greg Abbott, calling for party unity at the RPT state convention on Thursday after Ted Cruz left the race for president last week

I hate to make this comparison. I really do feel like in the future I would hate to look back and say, ‘I voted for Hitler.’ I feel like that may be what is happening if I vote for Trump.

Heather Dreesman, an evangelical voter in Nebraska, telling The Washington Post that thinking about the November election in which Donald Trump is the GOP nominee "makes her feel sick to her stomach"

I'm here to tell you that I'm not going anywhere. And I want you to know that I'm continuing to do the job I was elected to do.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a video posted online one day before an appeals court hearing in his criminal case