Quotes of the Week

If we don’t have the provider network, women cannot be served. And they will die.

State Rep. Sarah Davis, R-Houston, objecting to the Senate's approach to distributing money for a cancer screening program for low-income Texans

I think the ‘Kumbaya’ is about to be over. It’s time to start telling the voters where we stand.

State Rep. Jonathan Stickland, R-Bedford, to the Austin American-Statesman, signaling the rift between Tea Party Republicans and the House leadership

We are about to start cutting each other to shreds.

Stickland, again, to the Statesman in case he wasn't making himself clear

I thought, well, you know, the worst that could happen is he's gonna drop me out of his plane.

Billy Hamilton, chief revenue estimator to then-Comptroller Bob Bullock, remembering being instructed to meet Bullock at an airport after projecting lower oil prices

As a final note, if the Amarillo Globe-News ever publishes a picture of two men or two women kissing each other, I will cancel my subscription.

Newly elected Republican Party of Texas Chairman Tom Mechler in an op-ed published last March in the Globe-News