I will say I wish I hadn’t voted for that franchise tax.

State Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, showing remorse for voting in favor of creating the business margins tax in 2006

I thought it was decoration, but, no, that’s to muffle the sound of the bathroom behind her wall, so you can’t hear people that are on the toilet.

Comptroller Glenn Hegar, on discovering an employee's real use for a quilt in her office. Problems created by deferred maintenance are surfacing at state facilities.

One of them refused to leave us, and we took all the marijuana around him, but his natural instincts to run were somehow gone.

Drug Enforcement Administration agent Matt Fairbanks testifying before a Utah panel on rabbits developing a taste for marijuana

Climate change is often seen through a political lens. I’d like to discuss it from a military perspective. … Climate change poses a serious threat to America’s national security.

Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Ken Eickmann to a House panel this week on the danger posed by climate change

Once a politician, always a politician. To the end, he’d go over there and walk around and he’d say, ‘Hey, is that Bob Armstrong dip you’re eating? Well, I’m Bob Armstrong.’

Will Armstrong, son of former Land Commissioner Bob Armstrong, who passed away this week, on his other legacy: the bowl of queso that carries his name at Matt's Famous El Rancho in Austin