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I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.

Rick Perry

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Rick Perry
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
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James Richard Perry
James Richard Rick Perry
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When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that's even stronger than a handshake in Texas.
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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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I think every program needs to stand the sunshine of righteous scrutiny. Whether it's Social Security, whether it's Medicaid, whether it's Medicare.
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Abstinence works, I know it from my own personal life, abstinence works.
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The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure.
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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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Debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates. It's pretty hard to be able to sit and lay out your ideas and your concepts with a one-minute response.
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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.
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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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When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.
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