Quotes of the Week

Today, the global warming alarmists are the equivalent of the flat-earthers.

GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz doubling down against "global warming alarmists" during a wide-ranging interview with the Tribune's Jay Root

This is about states' rights. It’s about rights of the state of Texas and other states to define and regulate marriage.

State Rep. Cecil Bell, R-Magnolia, one of the speakers at Monday's Defense of Texas Marriage Amendment rally at the Capitol

Don’t look now, but we’re actually governing.

North Carolina GOP Congresswoman Renee Ellmers on the U.S. House passing legislation sparing doctors a 21 percent cut in Medicare payments. Passage in the Senate, though, is still in doubt.

He's not a braggadocios guy. He's not a guy that does sweeping gestures. He is kind of the trusted father type that you want to run our country.

Former U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, announcing on Wednesday that she is backing Jeb Bush in his 2016 presidential bid

Congressman Gohmert notes the Kennedy-Nixon debates created a line of demarcation beyond which television became the critical factor in being elected President which also meant there would be no more bald Presidents in his lifetime.

From an email from U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert's office walking back his earlier remark that he hadn't ruled out a presidential run