Quotes of the Week

I like Mitt Romney as much as any good-looking man can like another good-looking man and not break Texas law.

Rick Perry at Saturday night's Gridiron Club dinner, an annual roast-type event in Washington, D.C., for politicians and the media

The governor hopes that folks will vote for viable, active candidates. That does not include him.

Ray Sullivan, a spokesman for Rick Perry, to the Austin American-Statesman on votes still being cast for the governor in primary contests

Our people are in the right places. They’re doing the things to become delegates.

Ron Paul to CNN on his chances of winning the Republican presidential nomination

The concept of shoot first and ask questions later ... basically under the old law if somebody was in your house, that applied. The question is, do we want that in any place and everywhere and with only a presumption that someone's about to hurt you?

Rep. Garnet Coleman, D-Houston, on Houston' KUHF Radio calling for the repeal of Texas' "Castle Doctrine" in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting in Florida

We had to keep pumping water when we knew it was a lost cause. I knew it was a waste. Everybody knew it was a waste.

J.O. Dawdy, a farmer near the West Texas town of Floydada, on being required to water lost crops in order to collect federal insurance on the losses.

Go Cowboys!

One of the final phrases spoken by convicted murderer and sex offender Jesse Joe Hernandez before his execution on Wednesday