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" When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that's even stronger than a handshake in Texas. "
Rick Perry
Texas
God
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits. "
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" Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" I happily cling to my guns and my God, even if President Obama thinks that that is a simpleminded thing in his elitist heart. "
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" Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed. "
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" The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time. "
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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. "
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Pen
" We have the power to make things new again. To project American strength again, to get our economy going again. "
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" 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. "
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" We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen. "
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" My hope is that that person will come forward that can win the presidency that we can all get behind. "
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" I have no question that Newt Gingrich has the heart of a conservative reformer, the ability to rally and captivate the conservative movement. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" It's time to bring tough medicine to Washington. No longer will policy be set by K Street, it will be dictated by Main Street. "
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" Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives. "
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" The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American, and a threat to every private sector job in this country. "
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" 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. "
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" We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope. "
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" 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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" Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry. "
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" 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. "
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" It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel. "
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