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

Rick Perry

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Rick Perry
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
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Governor Of Texas
Military Officer
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James Richard Perry
James Richard Rick Perry
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And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.
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Texas created more jobs in 2008 than the rest of the states - combined.
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It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.
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Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.
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We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years.
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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.
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I would do away with Education, Commerce, and let's see - the third one I can't. I can't. Oops.
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Now, I have no doubt that Mitt Romney was worried about pink slips whether he was going to have enough of them to hand out because his company Bain Capital and all of the jobs that they killed I'm sure he was worried he would run out of pink slips.
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Aggies have a really interesting way of admitting defeat. We've never been outscored. We just ran out of time.
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I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.
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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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We cannot afford four more years of this misguided socialist policies from President Obama and his administration.
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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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Being the governor of a state is a more pivotal job in the future. I do indeed hope there's someone that says, I'm going to go to Washington, try to get back to our constitutional roots, devolve the centralization of government back to the states. So why would you want to be up there if the action is down here in the states?
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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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I am proud to live in a country with an African-American president. But President Obama cannot be proud of the fact that the prevalence of black poverty has actually increased under his leadership. The specific policies advanced by the president and his allies on the left amount to little more than throwing money at the problem and walking away.
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The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of life we enjoy - they are a reflection of the majesty of our Creator.
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That the Texas Legislature, that the Texas school boards, the Texas teachers, we collectively know best how to educate our children, rather than some bureaucrat in Washington.
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