Quotes of the Week

Everything Trump promises comes with an expiration date. We knew it during the primary, and now it is apparent he has duped his most loyal supporters on the issue they care about most, immigration. Don't say we didn't warn them.

Amanda Carpenter, former Senate communications director for Ted Cruz, talking to Politico about Trump's recent language intimating a possible "softening" on his immigration policies

Everybody that's done this for a living and got paid to do it is, like, 'Oh, my gosh, suppose this works. We're all rendered useless.' He will have destroyed an entire profession.

Democratic political operative James Carville to The New Yorker on what Donald Trump's unorthodox campaign for president could mean for the political consulting industry

Every vote is important and we need to get every vote, but at some point it comes back to money. And we’re a county that, if we had a lot of money, yeah, we’d [vote] wherever, but we don’t.

Starr County Judge Eloy Vera, talking to The (McAllen) Monitor on the county's decision to have just one early voting site for the November general elections