Quotes of the Week

The same spirit of freedom that inspired the Maccabees to rise up against a foreign empire motivated our Founding Fathers to rebel against the Crown on that fateful night.

Gov. Rick Perry commemorates the start of Chanukah in his own particular idiom

How many more Americans are going to be captured because the message is, if you will go capture an American and incarcerate then, hold them, that this administration will deal with you.

Perry, reacting to President Obama's decision to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba

As we weigh the evidence, we think Texas will, at the least, have a rough 2015 ahead, and is at risk of slipping into a regional recession.

J.P. Morgan Chase’s chief U.S. economist Michael Feroli, telling clients that dropping oil prices raise the specter of a bust

We were elected to govern. If we blow it by not governing, then shame on us.

U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, who is critical of U.S Sen. Ted Cruz's tactic of opposing this week's must-pass spending bill as part of his efforts to countermand President Obama's executive order on immigration

Texans are very conservative people. We like our guns and, apparently, the death penalty, but it should be done the right way. There should be no doubt of guilt.

Judge Tom Price of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, explaining to the Austin American-Statesman why he decided to state openly his opposition to the death penalty