Quotes of the Week

Imagine the Girl Scouts having to sell through a distributor network. Imagine Apple having to sell through a distributor network.

Tesla Motors VP of Communications Ricardo Reyes arguing for an exception to Texas' franchise law for Tesla by comparing the electric cars to cookies

We’re not just outlaw bikers. I don’t want to be profiled just because I ride a motorcycle.

Scrap’n Calaveras, an Austin motorcyclist, to the Tribune at a biker rally at the Capitol on Monday

No, but I think I would do pretty well. I know the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776. I know World War II was started Dec. 7, 1941. I know what the Civil War was fought over.

State Rep. Bill Zedler, R-Arlington, to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on whether he's taken a civics exam. He has a bill this session that would require high school students to pass one to graduate.

We're short about three Lake Meads.

Earth scientist Gordon L. Wells on the loss of 84 million acre-feet of water in Texas in the most recent drought. The state has since recovered just 10 percent of that.

Ours was a show of solidarity that we’re not going to let outside sources threaten us with violence.

State Rep. Drew Springer, R-Muenster, on the "I'm Poncho" stickers worn by his colleagues after Alfonso "Poncho" Nevárez, D-Eagle Pass, received death threats over a confrontation in his office with open carry activists