Quotes of the Week

My feeling is this: If a man wants to divorce me and says our relationship has no value to him, and then he asks me if he can sleep with me, the answer is No!

Kim Mulkey, women's basketball coach at Baylor, on keeping Texas A&M on the schedule after the Aggies leave the conference, quoted by the Orangebloods blog

I’m all in with his candidacy. Our children are all in. Our four dogs are all in.

Anita Perry addressing the Republican Women of Las Vegas

He's spreading conspiracy-theory rumors about me working with Republicans to draw him out of a job.

State Rep. Joaquin Castro on U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, whose job he wants, quoted in the Austin American Statesman

The questions you’ve asked were instigated by my political opponents and are political puke – nothing more than recycled rumors, innuendo and lies.

Mike Toomey, a lobbyist, director of a pro-Rick Perry Super PAC and an old friend of the governor, in an email to The Texas Tribune and The New York Times

You get to ask the question. I get to answer like I want to.

Gov. Rick Perry, to CNN's Anderson Cooper in the latest debate

In over 25 years doing this area of law practice, I have never represented a prosecutor. I can remember only a very few instances of reports of prosecutors being disciplined for any violation of the rules.

Austin attorney Chuck Herring, who specializes in lawyer discipline cases, on the State Bar's rare investigations into prosecutorial misconduct, quoted in the Austin American Statesman

It’ll be a huge tonic politically and economically and make it a huge issue next year. And there will be a big mandate for tax simplification.

Erstwhile presidential candidate and flat tax enthusiast Steve Forbes on the effect of Gov. Rick Perry's recent tax proposal, quoted in the Wall Street Journal