Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes culled from news reports from across Texas, and beyond.
U.S Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio
The Republican Party of Texas, in many ways, helped build Donald Trump. People like Ted Cruz and Dan Patrick are not victims of a party that was hijacked by Donald Trump. They are, in fact, precursors.
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Comedian Stephen Colbert, on Monday’s news that Donald Trump fired his campaign manager.
Someone was managing that campaign?
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PolitiFact’s verdict on Gov. Greg Abbott’s claim that “ISIS is running through” the U.S.-Mexico border.
Abbott’s claim isn’t just wrong, it’s ridiculous. Pants on Fire!
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The Corpus Christi Caller-Times editorial board, on Texas SBOE member David Bradley’s support for a proposed Mexican-American studies textbook that has been criticized by activists and scholars.
It’s a shame that someone with such a blatantly racist view represents 12 counties and part of a 13th and has a say in Texas public education. There is nothing left-leaning about the desire to have the history and heritage of Mexican-Americans represented in school curriculum in Texas of all places. If anything, the lack of it renders the curriculum incomplete.
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Glenn Beck, arguing that people such as himself are the true civil rights leaders of today.
Who are the civil rights leaders? I’ve said this for a long time and people make fun of us: We’re the civil rights leaders, we’re the civil rights leaders of today. They have discredited themselves and they are dismissed.
