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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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Rick Perry
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
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Governor Of Texas
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James Richard Perry
James Richard Rick Perry
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There's a real difference between venture capitalism and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism we like. Vulture capitalism, no. And the fact of the matter is that he's going to have to face up to this at some time or another, and South Carolina is as good a place to draw that line in the sand as any.
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Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.
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Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.
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Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell.
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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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I don't believe man-made global warming is settled in science enough.
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The radical Islamic terrorists and their intent to destroy any other religious structure than their radical, wrong-headed view of Islam is one of the great, if not the greatest, challenge we've had in 70 years in America.
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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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Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.
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To make sure that votes are never canceled out by illegal votes, we instituted a photo ID requirement. And don't you think it's fair to apply at least the same standard required to get a library card or to board an airpane?
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We're at the end of an era of failed leadership. We have been led by a divider [Barack Obama] who has sliced and diced the electorate, pitting American against American for political purposes.
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I don't want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don't want to look like Oklahoma, I don't want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that's not to diss anybody else.
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I may have the genetic coding that Im inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.
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My policy will be to detain and deport every illegal alien who is apprehended in this country. And we'll do it with an expedited hearing process so that millions of illegal aliens are not released into the general population with some hearing date down the road.
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Every life is precious.
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Obama is a president, who I think is anti-jobs.
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I would a whole lot rather had Carly Fiorina over there doing our negotiation than John Kerry. Maybe we would've gotten a deal where we didn't give everything away. But the issue for us is to have a Congress that stands up and says not only no, but Hell no to this money going to a [Iran] regime that is going to use it for terror...
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