Rick Perry Quotes

• Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.

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  Every life is precious.

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

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  Topics in America

  Tags in Government

• 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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  Tags in Resides, Found

• 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.

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• But of course, now we’re told we’re in recovery but this sure doesn’t feel like a recovery to more than 9 percent of the Americans out there who are unemployed, or the 16 percent of the African-Americans, 11 percent of Hispanics in the same position, or the millions who can only find part-time work or those who have even stopped looking for a job.

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• Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.

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

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  Tags in Conservatives

• But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they’ve been brought there by no fault of their own, I don’t think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.

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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Educate

• As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn’t first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens.

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  Tags in American, Taxpayer

• Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or ‘the ability to vote with your feet.’ If you don’t support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol – don’t come to Texas. If you don’t like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don’t move to California.

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  Tags in Mobility

• 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.

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  Tags in Pains, Farming

• I didn’t say I was running, did I?

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  Tags in Say, Running

• And I think most people in this country want to see a president that’s got the courage to say we’re going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we’re going to get Americans working.

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

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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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  Tags in Dreamed, Economics

• I got all the respect in the world for the front-runners in this race, but ask yourself: If we replace a Democratic insider with a Republican insider, you think we’re really going to change Washington, D.C.? You don’t have to settle for Washington and Wall Street insiders who supported the Wall Street bailout and the Obamacare individual mandate.

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  Tags in Republican, World

• 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.

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  Tags in Loan, Bank

Rick Perry (84)

Birth:	4th March, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Farmer, Politician

About

James Richard "Rick" Perry is the 47th and current Governor of Texas. Perry, a Republican, was elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1998 and assumed the governorship in December 2000 when then-governor George W. Bush resigned to become President of the United States.

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