Quotes of the Week

The third agency of government I would do away with – the Education, the Commerce, and — let’s see, I can’t. The third one I can’t. Sorry. Oops.

Rick Perry, in Wednesday night's presidential debate

[I'm] glad I had my boots on, because I sure stepped in it tonight.

Gov. Rick Perry to reporters in Detroit after his now-infamous "oops" gaffe during Wednesday's GOP debate

With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more.

Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, retiring after Jerry Sandusky was charged with molesting eight boys while on the coaching staff

A defined... you go first, Newt.

Herman Cain in a dialogue with Newt Gingrich in The Woodlands. Askedf he preferred a defined benefit plan or premium support for Medicaid

This happened to me for not understanding that I shouldn't report on the social networks.

A note left on a placard next to the beheaded body of a blogger, who was allegedly killed by the notorious Zetas gang in the border city of Nuevo Laredo for posting anti-crime messages on a blog, according to the Houston Chronicle

My reaction was, 'Really? No shit. That’s pretty cool.

Caitlin Baker, whose mother, Debra Baker, was murdered in 1988, after learning the alleged murderer, Mark Norwood, was finally apprehended Wednesday

In conclusion, the prayer is over. God bless the United States of America and piss on Obama.

Oilman and former gubernatorial candidate Clayton Williams, ending a benediction at a pipeline ground-breaking ceremony, quoted in the Odessa American