This is a quirky place and a quirky process to say the least. We're going to go into, you know, places where they have actual primaries and there are going to be real Republicans voting.

Gov. Rick Perry, leaving Iowa

There will be a great debate in the Republican Party before we are prepared to have a great debate with Barack Obama.

Newt Gingrich, who finished fourth place in Iowa, to a crowd of supporters

Not a whole lot of people knew that I was acting governor. Some that did were asking for appointments and things like that.

Texas Senate President Pro Tempore Mike Jackson, who has the top job when Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst are out of the state

Republicans talk a lot about losing their way during the last decade, and when they do they’re talking about the Bush years. For Republicans, the Bush administration has become the 'yadda yadda yadda' period of American history.

Jack Pitney, a political science professor at Claremont-McKenna College, in the Boston Globe