Rick Perry Quotes

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Rick Perry

Profession : Politician

Birth : March 4, 1950

And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.

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Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'

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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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We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

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Our view is that individuals and families can govern their lives better than bureaucrats.

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Admit it America - 2008 was our national 'oops' moment!

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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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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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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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When a criminal breaks into your home I'll let the liberals call the lawyer. I'm going to call Smith & Wesson.

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Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

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Being the Republican front-runner was three of the most exciting hours of my entire life. I've come to grips with it, and the only lasting effect is that I refuse to go on a stage that has more than one podium on it.

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I learned that not everyone values life like we do in America, or the rights that are endowed to every human being by a loving God.

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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 know something. America is not broken, Washington, D.C. is broken.

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It's time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government.

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We stand up and proudly proclaim that Washington is not our caretaker and we reject a state, in Margaret Thatcher's words, a state that takes too much from us to do too much for us.

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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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In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.

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It is up to us, to this present generation of Americans, to take a stand for freedom, to send a message to Washington that we're taking our future back from the grips of central planners who would control our healthcare, who would spend our treasure, who downgrade our future and micro-manage our lives.

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