We will build a wall that works, and I'll get Donald Trump to pay for it.

Ted Cruz, making a promise at this week's GOP presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nev., to get results on border security

I'm here tonight and I want to make this clear to everybody, so you can put me on record on this: Sen. Cruz unequivocally — unequivocally — does not support legalization.

Cruz campaign chairman Chad Sweet after this week's GOP presidential debate in a "mark this down" moment to reporters; the candidate doubled down on the position later in the week

Self-deportation is a policy and political loser. You can ask President Mitt Romney all about what he thinks about self-deportation.

Hispanic Leadership Fund president Mario Lopez, criticizing Cruz's strategy of "attrition through enforcement" approach to dealing with undocumented immigrants in the country

That is a rumor that has grown like a field weed spread with cow manure.

Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez, responding last week to criticism from state leaders that she hasn't been cooperating fully with federal immigration authorities

Telling Trump supporters that they should vote for Jerry Patterson while simultaneously opining that anybody who votes for Trump is an idiot is not a good formula for success.

Former Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, explaining his decision not to run for railroad commissioner

What was the old Grateful Dead? What a long, strange trip it’s been, comes to mind. This has been a long and strange trip in a Republican primary and who knows what may come out of it in the final analysis.

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, summing up his feelings in an interview on an Iowa radio station about how the race for the GOP presidential nomination has developed