Quote

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

Rick Perry

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Rick Perry
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Farmer
Governor Of Texas
Military Officer
Politician
Haskell
Texas
James Richard Perry
James Richard Rick Perry
Defenders
Liberals
Status
Message
Messages
Started
Getting

More quotes by Rick Perry

Image
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.
Rick Perry
Image
America is looking for a consistent leader.
Rick Perry
Image
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
Image
I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed, included hand sewing my clothes until I went off to college.
Rick Perry
Image
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
Image
What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.
Rick Perry
Image
I would do away with Education, Commerce, and let's see - the third one I can't. I can't. Oops.
Rick Perry
Image
I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects. And I think we are seeing almost weekly or even daily scientists are coming forward and questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change.
Rick Perry
Image
We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years.
Rick Perry
Image
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.
Rick Perry
Image
I know for a fact that Ted Cruz every day uses two checklists - to guide him through his personal and professional life - and that is the Bible and the U.S. Constitution.
Rick Perry
Image
We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do.
Rick Perry
Image
Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.
Rick Perry
Image
I don't want to be the president of the United States. I do want to work with the governors across the country to make the states more pivotal, more powerful, as they should be.
Rick Perry
Image
Four semesters of organic chemistry made a pilot out of me.
Rick Perry
Image
We find ourselves in what I consider to be the most challenging, difficult, threatening time since World War II because of this War on Terror.
Rick Perry
Image
[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
Image
Aggies have a really interesting way of admitting defeat. We've never been outscored. We just ran out of time.
Rick Perry
Image
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
Image
I had the great privilege in 2011 and 2012 of learning a lot about what it takes to run for the presidency of the United States. It is one of the greatest challenges that any human being could take upon themselves.
Rick Perry