I think this is witch hunt after witch hunt after witch hunt. I hope we’ll be able to end these witch hunts and put that to bed.

Appropriations Chairman Jim Pitts on UT System regents' close interest in the administration at UT-Austin

We’ve come a long way, baby, since the last session. 

Sen. Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, on the budget the Senate passed on Wednesday

[Women] should not be exposed to a clinic with less standards than a clinic that performs a man’s colonoscopy.

Sen. Donna Campbell, R-New Braunfels, on a bill she co-authored that would raise licensing standards for abortion clinics

I made a mistake and I am deeply, deeply sorry for it.

Rep. Naomi Gonzalez, D-El Paso, addressing the House on Monday after being charged with driving while intoxicated last week

We have become expert in how to provide ideological reinforcement to like-minded people. But devastatingly, we have lost the ability to be persuasive with, or welcoming to, those who do not agree with us on every issue.

A report commissioned by the Republican National Committee analyzing the party's losses in 2012

Something that hasn’t happened in a long time has happened — we’re winning right now.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday

He comes to town, he chews barbed wire, he spits out rust. That’s what we need.

Sarah Palin complimenting Ted Cruz at CPAC, where he introduced her