Quotes of the Week

This is my first time here, not his.

Jack Osbourne, son of Black Sabbath front man Ozzy Osbourne on their visit to the Alamo last week

Any president who doesn't begin every day on his knees isn't fit to be commander-in-chief of this country.

Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz at the National Religious Liberties Conference in Iowa on Friday

Five major agencies that I would eliminate: the IRS, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce, and H.U.D.

Cruz, leaving out the Department of Education as he listed at this week’s presidential debate the agencies he would eliminate as president

I’ll put on my rawhide underwear and take all the chewings.

Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller on criticism of a string of fee hikes from his agency poised to start Dec. 1

The summer of Trump had not started when we did the last poll. He was not really in the race.

Jim Henson, co-director of the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll, on the surge in support for Donald Trump in the most current survey of GOP presidential candidates. He’s at 27 percent but was at 2 percent in the June poll.