Quotes of the Week

In Texas we like to write our own standards.

State Board of Education Chairwoman Barbara Cargill on the likelihood of Texas adopting nationally developed science standards

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It's time for our annual summer break. We'll post the next issue of Texas Weekly on Friday, July 27 — just in time for the runoff election. 

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It’s a shameless corridor of death. The election structurally means nothing to these people and will change absolutely nothing.

El Paso-based immigration attorney Carlos Spector on what Mexico's election means for exiles seeking refuge from the violence there

Yes, we are a state with a Republican majority, but they want and know that they need our immigrants, and not just from Mexico. Rick Perry is in office. Rick Perry wants us here.

Peggy Jaramillo, president of Tu Casa San Luis en Texas, an immigrant advocacy center

This is a discovery that could have been and should have been made in America. We are regretful that the United States Congress decided in this instance to turn its back on pushing forward the frontier of fundamental knowledge.

Steven Weinberg, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist at UT-Austin, after the announcement that European scientists may have discovered the elusive Higgs boson

Tragedy has occurred in my family in the past, and I am saddened it has happened again.

Rep. Blake Farenthold in a statement after a SWAT team searched his sister’s Corpus Christi home looking for drugs and weapons

I think the media sees more fire there than we do.

Fred Heldenfels, chairman of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, on recent criticism of the agency