Quotes of the Week

I could raise $5 million, he'll spend 10; I'll raise 10, he'll spend 20. You can never get ahead of the guy.

Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, to the Houston Chronicle on his hesitancy about running for a U.S. Senate seat against Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst.

I think you're right that he's going to run.

Republican operative Karl Rove on Gov. Rick Perry's presidential ambition, quoted in The Hill.

He was so entrenched on getting me. ... That was causing them to not be willing to focus on anything in these negotiations other than me.

Plaintiffs lawyer and top Democratic lawyer Steve Mostyn on Gov. Rick Perry's involvement in the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association fight.

He certainly would stand out among other governors. But that's just sort of a given in Texas.

Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, on Gov. Rick Perry's execution record.

Put simply, this is the wrong approach.

Randy Diehl, dean of the University of Texas' College of Liberal Arts, in a report on the "seven breakthrough solutions" for higher education promoted by Gov. Rick Perry and the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

Resisting reform and accountability is an unsustainable recipe for mediocrity and stagnation.

Gov. Rick Perry spokesman Mark Miner in response.

Opening the border to dangerous trucks at a time of high unemployment and rampant drug violence is a shameful abandonment of the [Department of Transportation's] duty to protect American citizens from harm and to spend American tax dollars responsibly.

Teamsters President Jim Hoffa, after learning that the U.S. and Mexico agreed on a cross-border trucking program that would allow Mexican and U.S. trucks to travel far into each other's territory.

It is lamentable that we see cases of this type in the justice system that involve innocent people, people who had drugs planted on them through no fault of their own.

Ciudad Juárez Mayor Héctor "Teto" Murguía, after learning of an FBI investigation into allegations that citizens of his border town were planting drugs in automobiles of unsuspecting travelers on their way north, in the El Paso Times.

It's not right simply because he [the prosecutor] doesn't do that for anybody else.

Hudspeth County Judge Becky Dean-Walker on why she rejected the lenient $500 fine and plea deal prosecutors recommended for country music star Willie Nelson after his pot bust in West Texas last year, in the Associated Press.