The focus is on one congressional race and eight state house races. In large part we are isolated from the national political landscape and that’s honestly where I prefer to be.

Land Commissioner George P. Bush, on Texas Republicans' game plan in 2016 with Donald Trump as the national party's standard bearer

Trump is going to slaughter some sacred cows, and I’m ready for the barbecue.

U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Corpus Christi, explaining why he's backing Donald Trump for president

I think the Republican presidential primary has basically demonstrated why I left. The Republican Party has turned into the Donner party. They’re eating themselves up.

Court of Criminal Appeals Justice Lawrence E. Meyers, who is running for re-election this year as a Democrat for the first time after switching parties in 2013

We’re not a battleground state. You’re not going to see the Democratic Party or Hillary Clinton spending $100 million in Texas to make us a battleground state.

Former Land Commissioner and Clinton campaign authorized agent Garry Mauro, throwing water this week on the idea that Texas will be competitive in the fall

Yes, I would love to talk to him. I think he even needs to know we are people, too.

McKinney high school valedictorian Larissa Martinez telling WFAA-TV that she'd like to meet Donald Trump during his Texas swing this week after disclosing that she's an undocumented immigrant