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We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do.

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Rick Perry
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Farmer
Governor Of Texas
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James Richard Perry
James Richard Rick Perry
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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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America does not need to be worried with bailing out a European country that has made irresponsible expenditures, and then all of a sudden, throws their hands up and say, Oh, please come save us. That is not our responsibility in the United States of America.
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From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented.
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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 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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Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.
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Every life is precious.
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You got to have a courageous president to stand up and says, listen, if - if you send a bill to me that spends more money than what we've coming in, I'll veto it. I mean, I'm going to try to work with you the best I can, but I'm going to veto it.
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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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We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.
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Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.
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Religious freedom does not mean freedom from religion.
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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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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.
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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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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 stand before you today as a disciplined conservative Texan, a committed Republican and a proud American, united with you to restoring our nation and revive the American dream.
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Even if an alcoholic is powerless over alcohol once it enters his body, he still makes a choice to drink. And, even if someone is attracted to a person of the same sex, he or she still makes a choice to engage in sexual activity with someone of the same gender.
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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.
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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.
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