Quotes of the Week

I don’t know about you, but Barack Obama ought to be impeached. Not only for trampling on our liberties, but what he did in Benghazi is just a crime.

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, quoted by the Texas Observer at a NE Tarrant Tea Party forum

I will remind you that this group of renegades that decided that they wanted to break from the crown in 1776 did great damage to the economy of the colonies. They created the greatest nation and the best form of government, but they did damage to the economy in the short run.

U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Va., quoted by The Hill before Congress temporarily ended the shutdown and threat of default

It was one person who was able to steamroll Congress, and unless we target him for what he is, he's going to do it again.

U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., speaking about Ted Cruz to Capital New York

I've found that some people, if you say anything other than Ted Cruz is the greatest living senator that America has ever had, they’re mad at you.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on his radio show

Sometimes those comments like that are made out of malice, but if someone has no intelligence, I don’t view it as being a malicious statement.

U.S. Sen. John McCain to NBC News' Brian Williams on U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert's suggestion that McCain has supported al-Qaida

These are some folks that wanted to highlight the differences in policies between the states, and identify what works to create jobs, freedom and opportunity.

Gov. Rick Perry on a radio show describing Americans for Economic Reform, a group said to be laying the groundwork for another Perry presidential bid

In a year or two, the Poteet Strawberry Festival may be called something else.

Kinky Friedman, seeking the Democratic nomination for agriculture commissioner on a platform that includes legalization of marijuana