Quotes of the Week

I was utterly shocked. He gave a world-class speech, and had he stopped seven-eighths of the way through, nobody would doubt he’d be the nominee in 2020 or 2024. Instead he goes and says, ‘Vote your conscience,’ which everyone knows meant, ‘F Trump.’

An unnamed Ted Cruz backer, talking to National Review on lingering blowback to the Texan's speech to the Republican National Convention

Why they didn’t run one Latin word in the inscription past somebody in the classics department is sort of unfathomable to me. We are 100 yards from the memorial, and nobody bothered to ask us.

UT classics department chairwoman Lesley Dean-Jones on the etching of a grammatically incorrect Latin word into the monument to the victims of the UT Tower shooting that was unveiled this week

We changed history. There will never be another time in this country when a woman can’t interview for the top job.

Genevieve Van Cleve, a Hillary Clinton delegate from Austin, on the nomination of a woman for president by a major party for the first time in U.S. history