Quotes of the Week

Look at you, cowgirl! You look like you just got off a John Deere tractor.

Rick Perry to fellow GOP presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina when she showed up unannounced at a campaign event in Kimballton, Iowa

I'm not going to call it inappropriate or appropriate. I just think it was thought-provoking.

Sid Miller campaign spokesman Todd Smith on a controversial nuke "the Muslim world" Facebook post that was shared from the agriculture commissioner's account

Thank goodness! I gained 10 pounds from the stress of not having Blue Bell when I'm stressed!!!

Deanne Jordan Martinez of Waco, sharing excitement on Blue Bell Ice Cream's Facebook page after word that the iconic Texas treat will return to market Aug. 31

The American people often disagree on what the best approach should be to fixing the immigration system. But we have veered off now into a rhetorical targeting of immigrants themselves. The use of language such as ‘anchor babies’ is disgusting.

Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention on the call by some GOP presidential candidates to end birthright citizenship

If there's just one sugar daddy behind a candidate, I can't imagine that person being elected.

Brian Ballard, a Florida lobbyist and Jeb Bush supporter, predicting that candidates dependent on the largesse of just a handful of rich benefactors won't succeed in the long term