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" I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world. "

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" Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Texas created more jobs in 2008 than the rest of the states - combined. "

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

" America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech. "

" When a criminal breaks into your home I'll let the liberals call the lawyer. I'm going to call Smith & Wesson. "

" 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. "

" I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family. "

" My hope is that that person will come forward that can win the presidency that we can all get behind. "

" Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress. "

" I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesn't make any difference what the interest rate is. They're not - they're not going to loan the money because they can't make any money for one thing plus the cost of compliance. "

" Page one of any economic plan to get America working is to give a pink slip to the current resident in the White House. "

" We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure. "

" We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do. "

" Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business - men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know it's going to cost us and cost us a lot. "

" Aggies have a really interesting way of admitting defeat. We've never been outscored. We just ran out of time. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" We are a resilient country. We've been through a Civil War; we've been through two World Wars. We've been through a Great Depression; we even made it through Jimmy Carter! We will make it through the Obama years! "

" The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Let's stop this American downward spiral. "

" The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong. "

" I supported Arizona's immigration law by joining in that lawsuit to defend it. Every day I have Texans on that border that are doing their job. "