This is not a cage match . . . The questions shouldn’t be getting people to tear into each other.

Ted Cruz, taking to task the moderators' lines of inquiry at Wednesday's CNBC-hosted GOP presidential debate in Colorado

They really hate these moderators.

Republican pollster Frank Luntz on his focus group's record setting reaction to Cruz's criticism of the debate moderators

As far as I can tell Jeb Bush is slashing so much staff, and so much payroll, that Jeb! Is getting rid of the exclamation point.

Kellyanne Conway of the Cruz-supportive super PAC, Keep the Promise I, on the staff cuts at Bush's campaign

It’s very fashionable to attack beef these days.

Gene Hall, a spokesman for the Texas Farm Bureau, on the World Health Organization's study that finds red meat “probably” carcinogenic to humans

We need to put people into office who will support my plan to ensure that we end sanctuary cities in Texas.

Gov. Greg Abbott, sending a pointed message that sanctuary cities will pop up as a campaign issue next year