Quotes of the Week

I think that was a bit of a hurdle initially, but I’m very calm in my heart that this is what I’m supposed to be doing.

Rick Perry on running for president, in an interview with Time

I’m going to do pretty darn well in Dixie.

Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney on Monday at a town-hall event in New Hampshire

I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm looking for the candidate who can win. I want a candidate who can fix this economy. I'd like to see someone with the experience necessary to do that.

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, asked on MSNBC whether who she will support in the GOP primary for president.

My supporters don't leave just because others get into the campaign.

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain to the San Francisco Chronicle on Rick Perry's entry into the presidential race

It needs to happen, and I agree with you it would tie things up. No question about that.

U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Lewisville, to a Tea Party activist who suggested that the House impeach President Obama to stall his agenda

When we came into the nation in 1845, we were a republic, we were a stand-alone nation. And one of the deals was, we can leave anytime we want. So we’re kind of thinking about that again.

Gov. Rick Perry, in a recently surfaced audio clip of a March 2009 meet-and-greet with bloggers in his office

I love my country. If I were king or emperor of America, I would do exactly what Ronald Reagan did. [Reagan said], ‘You know what? You hurt an American citizen — I don’t care where you are — and I am coming after you.’ And we’re in America.

Jerry Brumley, president of International Security Agency, an outfit now licensed to sell private security contracts, discussing what inspired him to want to protect Texans on the border