Quotes of the Week

I think the first thing we have to say is that, for us, this is not politics. This is personal. ... He’s talking about our parents, friends, coworkers and children that we know.

Univision's Jorge Ramos, to Politico, on the difficult relationship between Donald Trump and the Hispanic media

Ted Cruz is the man who God has prepared for this moment in time to be our champion, to fight for our husbands, our wives, our children and our grandchildren, for our country.

Matt Schultz, Cruz's Iowa campaign chairman, suggesting to a crowd of evangelicals in Des Moines on Friday that the candidate was chosen by God to lead

My fellow Republicans, we don't have to settle for 11th-hour campaign conversions to conservatism. I've been with you every step of the way.

Rick Perry, in a Saturday speech to a Columbus meeting of Americans for Prosperity, a group started by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch

If you’re the Iowa chairman, and you’re waiting on the campaign to call you — come on, you are the campaign.

Iowa state lawmaker Dawn Pettengill on former Perry Iowa campaign chairman Sam Clovis' claim that he had not heard from the campaign in 10 days

I’m a small-dip-cone guy, but I think we’re going to be at like 18 Dairy Queens in the next five days, so I’m going to switch to the Blizzard mini.

San Antonio Congressman Will Hurd at the kickoff of his Dairy Queen tour of his district, the sprawling CD-23 that stretches west from the Alamo City to the outskirts of El Paso