Quotes from Rick Perry

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

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.

As long as it's not me, I'll be cool.

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

I may have the genetic coding that Im inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.

Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.

Eliminate agencies that perform redundant functions... Get rid of the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy.

We should also give students more flexibility in the courses they take in high school to prepare them for whatever their goals may be, without sacrificing our rigorous academic standards.

Yeah, that's a cool name, but it's a monstrous intrusion into our affairs.

I am a firm believer in intelligent design as a matter of faith and intellect, and I believe it should be presented in schools alongside the theories of evolution.

The most important thing for us is to save lives.

George W. Bush did an incredible job in the presidency, defending us from freedom.

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