The Week in Quotes (June 5 – 11)

Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes culled from news reports from across Texas, and beyond.

Donald Trump, expressing doubt that a Muslim judge could remain neutral in the case against Trump University.

It’s possible, yes. Yeah. That would be possible. Absolutely.

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David Germer of University Presbyterian Church in San Antonio, on the Rev. Kelly Allen. Allen, an early advocate for LGBT equality, passed away.

She could talk about a way the world is not right and trusted that God would call the people to help set the world a little more right. There wasn’t a meeting I had with Kelly in which I didn’t feel a tiny sting to do a little more. She called out the same things in herself.

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Hillary Clinton, claiming the Democratic presidential nomination after decisive primary wins Tuesday.

Thanks to you, we’ve reached a milestone: The first time in our nation’s history that a woman will be a major party’s nominee for president of the United States.

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U.S. Rep. Bill Flores, R-Texas, on Donald Trump.

Americans need to see more vision and less trash talk. I was incredibly angry to see Mr. Trump question a judge’s motives because of his ethnicity.

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David Barton, claiming that historians who criticize his work do so because they hate America.

The academic community is phobic over this thing and Obama, of course, was a law professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago. And so that academic community, they hate America with a virility that is hard for the rest of us to understand.

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