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" Admit it America - 2008 was our national 'oops' moment! "
Rick Perry
Admit
Our
National
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" Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility. "
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Unity
Us
" Our best days are in front of us. We can reform those entitlements, we can change that corporate tax code and lower it. We can put America back on track on a growth level and a growth rate that we've never seen in the history of this country. "
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Best
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" Guns require a finger to pull the trigger. "
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Trigger
Pull
Guns
" The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure. "
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Think
Constitution
Freedom
" It is up to us, to this present generation of Americans, to take a stand for freedom, to send a message to Washington that we're taking our future back from the grips of central planners who would control our healthcare, who would spend our treasure, who downgrade our future and micro-manage our lives. "
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Future
Control
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" My hope is that that person will come forward that can win the presidency that we can all get behind. "
Rick Perry
Hope
Forward
Behind
" Vladimir Putin uses energy to hold our allies hostage. If energy is going to be used as a weapon, I say America must have the largest arsenal. "
Rick Perry
Hold
Energy
Going
" We will reverse course on the heavy hand of regulation, discarding Dodd-Frank and any other regulations that advance a political agenda at the expense of jobs and investment on Main Street. "
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Street
Will
Investment
" Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women. "
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Lawyers
Quit
Tell
" Every life is precious. "
Rick Perry
Life
Precious
Every
" Under Obama, our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a pen, abortion essentially became a U.S. foreign export. "
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Abortion
Now
Pen
" Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up! "
Rick Perry
Government
Cooking
New
" There is evil prowling in the world - it shows up in our movies, video games and online fascinations, and finds its way into vulnerable hearts and minds. "
Rick Perry
Movies
Evil
World
" In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That's what makes them criminals. "
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Evil
World
Responsible
" I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses. "
Rick Perry
Am
Hope
Iowa
" Our view is that individuals and families can govern their lives better than bureaucrats. "
Rick Perry
Better
Govern
Lives
" The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American, and a threat to every private sector job in this country. "
Rick Perry
Threat
Country
Job
" We have the power to make things new again. To project American strength again, to get our economy going again. "
Rick Perry
Strength
Power
American
" You see, as Americans we're not defined by class, and we will never be told our place. What makes our nation exceptional is that anyone, from any background, can climb the highest of heights. "
Rick Perry
Nation
Heights
Climb
" There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say 'let's just build a fence' and be done with it and wipe our hands, and it's going to secure the border, that's not reality. "
Rick Perry
People
Reality
Work
" It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government. "
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Job
American
Day
" I happily cling to my guns and my God, even if President Obama thinks that that is a simpleminded thing in his elitist heart. "
Rick Perry
Heart
Even
Guns
" And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started. "
Rick Perry
Getting Started
Status Quo
Message
" Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress. "
Rick Perry
Congress
Laws
Than
" In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down. "
Rick Perry
Government
Same
Liberal
" 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. "
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America
People
Greatness
" 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. "
Rick Perry
Think
Up
Economics
" Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A. "
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Business
Dream
Need
" I want you to answer this question: Why should you settle for anything less than an authentic conservative who will fight for your views and values without an apology? Think about that. "
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You
Conservative
Fight
" We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure. "
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Without
Freedom
Know