But when one of the teams advances, to a big bowl game? Or a national championship? Don't you root for the Aggies if you are a Longhorn?

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin speaking to the Texas delegation's breakfast meeting at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday.

I’m worried that I will be the last Republican president.

Former President George W. Bush, reported this week by Politico, at a reunion of his staff in April as the Republican choices were narrowing to Ted Cruz and Donald Trump

That pledge was not a blanket commit that if you go and slander and attack Heidi that I’m going to come like a servile puppy dog and say, 'Thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father.'

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, defending on Thursday his decision the night before not to endorse in his primetime convention address GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump

Oh, no. This is a normal convention.

Texas Sen. John Cornyn, replying "with a wink" to the Tribune when asked Tuesday about the fractious start to the GOP national convention