One of the benefits of freedom is that people can disagree. It’s fair to say I created plenty of opportunities to exercise that right.

George W. Bush at the opening of his presidential library on the SMU campus

Oh, that’s cool. You have just ruined my career.

Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, caught on tape when a sheriff's deputy told her he was taking her to jail for drunk driving

We have many of these, hundreds of facilities like this all over the state, and fortunately, they don’t explode very often.

Bryan Shaw, chairman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, speaking at TribLive on the explosion at a fertilizer plant in West

The only thing more troubling than making a bad decision is refusing to correct it once you know it was bad.

Rep. Jimmie Don Aycock, commenting on a Texas Tribune story on legislation to cut the number of standardized tests in public schools

I understand that Texas is a so-called red state, but you’ve got 10 million Democrats here in Texas. And beyond the fact that there are a whole lot of Democrats in Texas, there are a whole lot people here in Texas who need us.

President Barack Obama at a Democratic fundraiser in Dallas 

It’s like a feeding frenzy every spring. Every parent in Texas must have at least one picture of their kids in the bluebonnets, so you’ll see dotting the hillsides little baby butt prints where the flowers have been smooshed down.

Damon Waitt, a botanist at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, quoted in The New York Times

I'll leave it to the will of the body. I just want to go home and feed my cat.

Sen. John Carona, R-Dallas, during a debate on his payday lending bill