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Rick Perry Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the american politician Rick Perry on topics like texas, work, people

  • 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.

    — Rick Perry on abortion
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  • Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.

    — Rick Perry on boldly
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  • America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.

    — Rick Perry on america
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  • Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.

    — Rick Perry on ability
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  • We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life.

    We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.

    — Rick Perry on apologizing
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  • I got all the respect in the world for the front-runners in this race, but ask yourself: If we replace a Democratic insider with a Republican insider, you think we're really going to change Washington, D.C.? You don't have to settle for Washington and Wall Street insiders who supported the Wall Street bailout and the Obamacare individual mandate.

    — Rick Perry on bailout
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  • I want you to answer this question: Why should you settle for anything less than an authentic conservative who will fight for your views and values without an apology? Think about that.

    — Rick Perry on answer
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  • Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation.

    — Rick Perry on belief
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  • When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.

    — Rick Perry on calls
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  • There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say 'let's just build a fence' and be done with it and wipe our hands, and it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.

    — Rick Perry on border
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  • You see, as Americans we're not defined by class, and we will never be told our place. What makes our nation exceptional is that anyone, from any background, can climb the highest of heights.

    — Rick Perry on background
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  • Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!

    — Rick Perry on big
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  • About Rick Perry

    Name Rick Perry
    Quotes 81 quotations
    Nationality American
    Profession Politician
    Birthday March 4, 1950
    About James Richard "Rick" Perry is the 47th and current Governor of Texas. A Republican, Perry was elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1998 and assumed the governorship in December 2000 when then-governor George W. Bush resigned to become President of the United States. Perry was elected to full gubernatorial terms in 2002, 2006 and 2010.
    Top topics texas, work, people, conservative, values
  • It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.

    — Rick Perry on american
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  • We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years.

    — Rick Perry on balance
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  • I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses.

    — Rick Perry on hope
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  • Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.

    — Rick Perry on business
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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.

    — Rick Perry on basic
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  • This administration in Washington that's in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need, but it's the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area.

    — Rick Perry on administration
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  • Texas created more jobs in 2008 than the rest of the states - combined.

    — Rick Perry on combined
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  • Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you.

    — Rick Perry on fraudulent
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  • It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel.

    — Rick Perry on appeasement
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  • Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.

    — Rick Perry on blue
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  • I've always believed the mission is greater than the man.

    — Rick Perry on believed
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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.

    — Rick Perry on centered
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  • In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing, while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized.

    — Rick Perry on things
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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.

    — Rick Perry on attending
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  • Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.

    — Rick Perry on efficient
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  • We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003.

    We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen.

    — Rick Perry on billion
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  • The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.

    — Rick Perry on fact
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  • I supported Arizona's immigration law by joining in that lawsuit to defend it.

    Every day I have Texans on that border that are doing their job.

    — Rick Perry on arizona
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  • Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.

    — Rick Perry on excessive
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  • The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.

    — Rick Perry on absolute
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  • The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of life we enjoy - they are a reflection of the majesty of our Creator.

    — Rick Perry on air
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  • President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity.

    — Rick Perry on america
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  • Obama is a president, who I think is anti-jobs.

    — Rick Perry on obama
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  • But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A &

    M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.

    — Rick Perry on air
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  • I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country - don't get me wrong about that - but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment.

    — Rick Perry on ability
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  • Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator.

    — Rick Perry on distinction
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  • As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens.

    — Rick Perry on citizens
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  • I didn't say I was running, did I?

    — Rick Perry on running
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  • I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.

    — Rick Perry on care
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  • I have no question that Newt Gingrich has the heart of a conservative reformer, the ability to rally and captivate the conservative movement.

    — Rick Perry on ability
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  • Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.

    — Rick Perry on conservative
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  • The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American,and a threat to every private sector job in this country.

    — Rick Perry on administration
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  • But of course, now we're told we're in recovery but this sure doesn't feel like a recovery to more than 9 percent of the Americans out there who are unemployed, or the 16 percent of the African-Americans, 11 percent of Hispanics in the same position, or the millions who can only find part-time work or those who have even stopped looking for a job.

    — Rick Perry on feel
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  • To make sure that votes are never canceled out by illegal votes, we instituted a photo ID requirement. And don't you think it's fair to apply at least the same standard required to get a library card or to board an airpane?

    — Rick Perry on apply
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  • I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.

    — Rick Perry on closest
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  • Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex.

    Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation.

    — Rick Perry on building
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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.

    — Rick Perry on conservative
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  • As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.

    — Rick Perry on allowing
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