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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

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Rick Perry
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
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