Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes.
Columnist Jon Mark Beilue, writing about the so-called “bathroom bill” in the Texas Legislature.
“I’m not a liberal. I’m part of a growing group I’d call ’embarrassed conservatives’ — a large faction growing by the day who admired and voted for Ronald Reagan and wonders what in the world happened to sane, reasonable conservatism in the wake of the election of Donald Trump and what has drifted down further to the statehouse.”
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“We found them to be full of political indoctrination, religious indoctrination, revisionist history and distorting our founding values and principles, even a significant quantity of pornography.”
“We’ve offered meaningful solutions that were … dismissed when they went over to the Senate. If they don’t want to have a policy discussion, then there’s no point in us continuing down that road.”
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“And it is sort of nice when you walk around the halls of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building to keep running into people you know who are evangelicals. Personnel is policy. And there are more evangelicals in this administration as personnel than any administration in my lifetime, probably since Calvin Coolidge. And, you know, it’s a lot easier to explain evangelical concerns to evangelicals.”
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Former Texas Texas Education Commissioner Michael Williams
“[Thirty-five] years ago when I ‘came out’ as a Republican it never crossed my mind my party would some day worry about what bathrooms people used.”
