Quotes of the Week

I just don’t like the guy.

Former President George W. Bush talking about Ted Cruz at a fundraiser Bush's brother, Jeb

I was like, ‘Holy sh-t, did he just say that?’

An unnamed donor at the Jeb Bush fundraiser, expressing his surprise at Bush 43's jab at Cruz

I'm troubled by an insistence of so many members that we put him in a position that he has shown a reluctance to take.

House Freedom Caucus member Mo Brooks to The Hill, one of several conservatives critical of Paul Ryan's demands that must be met for him to consent to run for speaker

They know what they’re seeing on the ground is worse than they’ve ever seen before. It might just be our new normal because it hasn’t taken a turn for the better.

Justice Jones of the Austin Fire Department on firefighters' perspective on the role of climate change in recent fires in Bastrop County

Being chancellor was a lot of fun, but it doesn’t give you the same thrill as this.

Former UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa on resuming his surgical specialty of pediatric liver transplants

I am working hard to figure out a way to properly balance messaging so that gun control stays at the forefront. And as soon as I've worked that out, it'll be raining dildos.

Jessica Jin, the originator of the Campus (DILDO) Carry protest at UT-Austin, to the Houston Chronicle on offers by sex toy retailers to provide free dildos to students