Riddle, Fuentes, Muñoz, Kirk, Burton, and Perry

State Rep. Debbie Riddle, R-Tomball, discussing the legal status of undocumented immigrants, on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360: “If they are over here illegally, they are not here legally.” She also told a producer for the program that pregnant foreigners are visiting the U.S. as tourists to have babies they then take back home "with the nefarious purpose of turning them into little terrorists who will then come back to the U.S. and do us harm." And without naming names, she sourced that story: "That is information that is coming to my office from former FBI officials."

Former FBI official Thomas Fuentes, on the same show the next day: "There seem to be a lot of former FBI agents lurking in the halls of Congress and in the Legislature in the state of Texas, so I'm kind of curious about that issue as well."

Texas Commission on Jail Standards executive Director Adan Muñoz, after the Dallas County Jail passed its inspection for the first time since 2004, in the Texas Tribune: “Dallas County is in compliance — in my lifetime.”

Former Dallas mayor and current U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk to The Dallas Morning News: "I'm done. I'm never running again for anything."

Deputy White House press secretary Bill Burton, in The New York Times, on the Democratic candidate for governor not appearing with Barack Obama in Texas: “I don’t think it says anything broadly about the president’s coattails. I think it says that Bill White had something else going on today that he would rather do than campaign with the president.”

Gov. Rick Perry, quoted in the San Antonio Express-News: “Look, I'm a passionate guy. And when I'm passionate, my arms may get out. I may, you know, pound on the podium. I may walk around the stage. Now, if my opponents find that to be showboating, then, you know, I can't help it if they're dull."