I wanted to quit while I can still do my job. I covered the Senate long enough to see people carried out on a gurney, and I didn’t want to be one of those people in my profession.

Veteran newsman and Texas native Bob Schieffer, explaining his decision to retire from the news business this summer

People who talk about re-election during the session should be shot.

State Sen. Kevin Eltife, R-Tyler, who is at least 52 days away from deciding whether he's running for re-election

The joke is that at the Thanksgiving dinner table they throw turkey legs at each other.

Former Ron Paul travel aide Eric Dondero on the extent of disagreements between Ron and his son, Rand Paul

A white man just walks up to me and starts grabbing me. What do you do?

State Rep. Borris Miles, D-Houston, relaying his version of an encounter with a plainclothes DPS trooper on security detail for Attorney General Ken Paxton

At the end of the day I think there are a finite number of slots in our universities and those should be reserved for Texas citizens.

State Sen. Donna Campbell, R-New Braunfels, arguing in favor of reversing the 2001 law offering in-state tuition for certain undocumented high school graduates

It’s in the act of becoming an American that higher education becomes very personal.

Higher Education Coordinating Board Commissioner Raymund Paredes, arguing that the offer of in-state tuition rates is not an immediate driver of illegal immigration