31 Quotes by Cal Jillson

DeLay did what he had to do to remain a plausible candidate in November. But he's got a tremendous amount of work to do still. He goes forward into a meat grinder.

The Bush administration is in significant difficulty, and the leading figures in both the House and the Senate are in significant difficulty. All of these difficulties are going to go on.

This isn't a good day for Tom Craddick. A number of his very close associates were indicted in circumstances he was actively involved in, ... There is guilt by association, but if (Craddick) is not indicted, it's almost like being declared innocent.

The Republican governor and the Republican majority in the Legislature are unable to close that out. The fact they have failed to deal with public education, either education reforms or funding, has come home to roost.

It makes you wonder, when they have so many problems, why they would let this fester the way they have.

It's hard to catch lightning in a bottle twice. The fact that he wasn't able to build on that achievement (in 1996) is a comment on the uniqueness of that race and what he had to offer as a candidate.

It will pass in Texas by a vote of 2-to-1,

The ministers may think this is a religious, biblical issue but for Perry, while it may be that too, it's also a powerful political tool.

If you're betting your own money, you bet on Perry (to win re-election). But he can be beaten because there are reservations about him that run deep.