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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.

Rick Perry

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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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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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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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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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Although Mr. Trump talks an interesting and entertaining game, rarely do I hear him lay out specifics.
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Religious freedom does not mean freedom from religion.
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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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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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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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[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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I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and dreamed up, but it's not working.
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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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Abstinence works, I know it from my own personal life, abstinence works.
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Texas created more jobs in 2008 than the rest of the states - combined.
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America is looking for a consistent leader.
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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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We cannot afford four more years of this misguided socialist policies from President Obama and his administration.
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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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Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.
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What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.
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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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