Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes culled from news reports from across Texas, and beyond.
TFN founder Cecile Richards, the current head of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, answering a question about Todd “legitimate rape” Akin.
When someone asks you, “Did the rape guy win?” and you have to ask which one, that’s a bad sign.
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Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, on the separation of church and state.
Every religious person should object to having the Ten Commandments in schools because you are allowing other people — people over whom you have no control — the responsibility of interpreting said commandments.
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Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton, after signing the bill Tuesday that makes gay marriage legal in that state come Aug. 1.
Love is the law.
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U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, during an exchange with fellow members of the House Judiciary Committee and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
The attorney general will not cast aspersions on my asparagus.
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Pam Beasley Halpert, in the series finale of The Office.
There’s a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn’t that kind of the point?
Louie “Asparagus” Gohmert wins the Internet for Quote of the Week after being called out as a LIAR by the US Attorney General in an on-the-record congressional hearing.
Hey, that 9th Commandment* was ever only a suggestion, you know.
*in most lists.