Hope and change had a powerful appeal. But tonight I'd ask a simple question: If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn’t you feel that way now that he’s President Obama?

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney at the National Republican Convention

It wouldn’t be my speech. That would undo everything I’ve done in the last 30 years. I don’t fully endorse him for president.

Ron Paul, quoted in The New York Times about turning down a GOP convention speech because of the strings attached 

The problem is that first impressions can be very persuasive. He failed right at the crucial moment in Iowa and New Hampshire, and it’s very hard to go back and say, ‘I have my underwear on straight this time.’

Democratic consultant Jason Stanford, in the Dallas Morning News on Rick Perry's chances in another presidential run

Chalk up another victory for fraud.

Gov. Rick Perry on a federal court's decision to block the state's voter ID law

I feel terrible. I have nightmares. I don't want to say that it is post-traumatic stress, but in a way it is. I have nightmares about what we did. I have nightmares about the FBI coming to my office and handcuffing me and taking me out and EPISD firing me.

Johnnie Vega, an assistant high school principal, telling the El Paso Times he helped keep students out of school to prevent their bad grades from pulling down class averages