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" According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class. "
Texas
High School
Achieve
" Admit it America - 2008 was our national 'oops' moment! "
Admit
Our
National
" Aggies have a really interesting way of admitting defeat. We've never been outscored. We just ran out of time. "
Never
Way
Interesting
" America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech. "
Courage
Speech
America
" Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives. "
Less
More
Personal
" America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people. "
America
People
Greatness
" And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started. "
Getting Started
Status Quo
Message
" And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working. "
Think
Country
Courage
" Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress. "
Congress
Laws
Than
" As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility. "
Responsibility
Women
Work
" As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens. "
Money
Through
Sweat
" Being the Republican front-runner was three of the most exciting hours of my entire life. I've come to grips with it, and the only lasting effect is that I refuse to go on a stage that has more than one podium on it. "
Stage
Three
Go
" But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society. "
Society
Children
Heart
" But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom. "
Flying
Freedom
Blessings
" Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now. "
Winning
Champions
Cleaning
" Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California. "
Marriage
Vote
Support
" Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity. "
Blue
Dark
Clouds
" Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry. "
Active
Citizenry
Best
" Every life is precious. "
Life
Precious
Every
" Guns require a finger to pull the trigger. "
Trigger
Pull
Guns
" Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.' "
New York
Future
New
" I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award. "
Texas
School
Small
" I am going to give the American people a huge helping of unbridled truth: that we can't continue to spend what we are spending, that we can't avoid entitlement reform because we are afraid of third rail politics. "
Politics
American
I Am
" I believe in America. I believe in her purpose and her promise. I believe her best days have not yet been lived. I believe her greatest deeds are reserved for the generations to come. "
Believe
America
Purpose
" I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction. "
American
Direction
New
" I didn't say I was running, did I? "
Running
Did
Say
" I disagree with the concept that somehow or another we're going to pack up 10, to 12, to 15 million people and ship them back to the country of origin. That's not going to happen. "
People
Back
Country
" I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and dreamed up, but it's not working. "
Think
Up
Economics
" I don't want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don't want to look like Oklahoma, I don't want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that's not to diss anybody else. "
Want
Texas
California
" If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already have that. He's destroying our economy. I'm a doer, not a talker. "
Economy
You
Skills
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