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" 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. "
Rick Perry
Abortion
Now
Pen
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" I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country - don't get me wrong about that - but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment. "
Rick Perry
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America
Chance
" 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. "
Rick Perry
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Go
" 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. "
Rick Perry
Best
Growth
America
" 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
" Page one of any economic plan to get America working is to give a pink slip to the current resident in the White House. "
Rick Perry
America
House
Page
" 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
" 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. "
Rick Perry
Politics
American
I Am
" 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. "
Rick Perry
Crash
Building
Sex
" I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses. "
Rick Perry
Am
Hope
Iowa
" 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. "
Rick Perry
China
Country
Cross
" 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
" We stand up and proudly proclaim that Washington is not our caretaker and we reject a state, in Margaret Thatcher's words, a state that takes too much from us to do too much for us. "
Rick Perry
Stand
Words
Us
" You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund? "
Rick Perry
Know
Last
Texas
" Aggies have a really interesting way of admitting defeat. We've never been outscored. We just ran out of time. "
Rick Perry
Never
Way
Interesting
" 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
" Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you. "
Rick Perry
Against
Government
You
" 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
" 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. "
Rick Perry
God
Good
Strong
" It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel. "
Rick Perry
Policy
Time
Nation
" Obama is a president, who I think is anti-jobs. "
Rick Perry
I Think
Who
Think
" Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government. "
Rick Perry
Wealth
Government
Success
" Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation. "
Rick Perry
Great
Values
Our
" It is time to let America be America again. To return freedom to the people. To stand on our founding principles and reject the cynical politics of the Nanny State. "
Rick Perry
America
Freedom
Time
" 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
" 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. "
Rick Perry
Street
Will
Investment
" It's time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government. "
Rick Perry
Government
Again
Believe
" My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work. "
Rick Perry
Quality
Hope
Work
" Admit it America - 2008 was our national 'oops' moment! "
Rick Perry
Admit
Our
National
" America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech. "
Rick Perry
Courage
Speech
America
" 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