Quotes of the Week

Get that early voting done; you never know when the good Lord is going to call you home.

Gov. Rick Perry, campaigning in Nevada for Mitt Romney

And since this is off the record, I will just be very blunt. Should I win a second term, a big reason I will win a second term is because the Republican nominee and the Republican Party have so alienated the fastest-growing demographic group in the country, the Latino community. And this is a relatively new phenomenon. 

President Barack Obama in an interview with the Des Moines Register editorial board in which he attempted to go off the record

I pale in comparison to these two men.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Paul Sadler on U.S. Reps. Charlie Gonzalez and Lloyd Doggett, who attended a rally for Sadler on Monday

It is hopelessly broken. It is not only inadequate, it is irrational, it's unfair and, most importantly, it's unconstitutional.

Richard Gray, a lawyer for Texas school districts, on the first day of the major school finance trial