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" I didn't say I was running, did I? "

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" Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now. "

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" When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home. "

" 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. "

" I'm all about job creation. That's what I've done for ten years as the governor of Texas, and that's what I'm focused on. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat. "

" When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that's even stronger than a handshake in Texas. "

" 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. "

" Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government. "

" 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. "

" I know something. America is not broken, Washington, D.C. is broken. "

" It's time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government. "

" Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation. "

" And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started. "

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" Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity. "

" In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people. "

" Obama is a president, who I think is anti-jobs. "

" It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel. "

" 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. "

" I've always believed the mission is greater than the man. "

" I learned that not everyone values life like we do in America, or the rights that are endowed to every human being by a loving God. "

" 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. "

" 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! "