Quotes of the Week

And so we should not be aligned with such people — they’re just, they’re just literally lying.

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt on his decision to cut ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), citing that group's stances on climate change

I just wanted to see what it would do, and I overdid it, naturally, and I was laying there, and it felt like the flesh was falling off my bones.

Willie Nelson, letting New York Times' columnist Maureen Dowd know she wasn't alone in having a misadventure with pot-laced edibles

I’m a Democrat, and I will die as a Democrat.

U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, who apparenly is not switching parties. Good to know.

They call us the three amigos.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on his siding with liberal colleagues Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., against arming and training Syrian rebels to fight ISIS

It didn’t turn out so well. What people want is for the government to function and not to throw temper tantrums and say we’re not going to play ball.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, on the legislative tactics in his own party on defunding the Affordable Care Act that led to the federal government shutdown