In the coming days, there will be those who foment distrust and fan the flames of dissension. To come together — that would be the greatest rebuke to those who seek to tear us apart.

Gov. Greg Abbott, in an open letter to all Texans in the aftermath of last week's attack at the close of a protest in Dallas that claimed the lives of five police officers

All those protesters last night, they ran the other way, expecting the men and women in blue to turn around and protect them. What hypocrites!

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, criticizing in a Fox News interview the behavior of the protestors in Dallas after the first shots were fired

Somebody ought to sit there and say, 'Kids, pool your lunch money together and see if you can’t hire a lobbyist.'

Retired District Judge John Dietz, who tried the last two challenges to the state's system of financing schools, on persistently low per-student spending on education

We don't lose sleep over it. The catastrophic event I’m most concerned about is if Hillary Clinton becomes president.

Winkler County Sheriff George Keely, putting locals' fears over a couple of large sinkholes in the county into a more contemporary context