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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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If And When We Get Back To That Solid, Biblically And Constitutionally Based Foundation In This Country, America Will Be Great - And America Will Be Great Again Because We Give People Freedom, We Dissolve Power Out Of Washington.

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Frankly, Getting Mexico Economically Headed In The Right Direction With Good Energy Policy - Canada, The United States, And Mexico Have More Known Energy Reserves Than Saudi Arabia And Russia. So Developing Those And I Think You'll See A Major Movement Of People Back Into Mexico When That Occurs When These Prices Get Back. You're Going To See A Substantial Development Of The Energy Business In Mexico And Canada, Domestic As Well.

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I'll Work Every Day To Try To Make Washington, D.c., As Inconsequential In Your Life As I Can.

Beautiful, Luscious And Flowing. Atop The Governor's Head.

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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Yeah, That's A Cool Name, But It's A Monstrous Intrusion Into Our Affairs.

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Who Knew, When You Were Watching The Verizon Ad And The Guy Said, 'can You Hear Me Now,' That Was Really Just A Mic Check For The Obama Administration.

We've Got The Wind At Our Back Right Now. Americans Are Waking Up To The Realities Of Their Previous Choices. We Must Keep America Moving Back To Preeminence Because Our Values And Conservative Ideas Are The World's Greatest Hope.

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.

African American

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Armed And Law-abiding Citizens Are A Greater Deterrent To Violent Crime Than 1,000 Laws Passed By Congress.

Dark Economic Clouds Are Dissipating Into An Emerging Blue Sky Of Opportunity.

George W. Bush Did An Incredible Job In The Presidency, Defending Us From Freedom.

We Do Not Have To Accept Our Current Circumstances. We Will Change Them. We Are Americans. That's What We Do.

Texas Created More Jobs In 2008 Than The Rest Of The States - Combined.

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.

The Most Important Thing For Us Is To Save Lives.

Important Things

I Don't Want To Look Like Connecticut, No Offense, I Don't Want To Look Like Oklahoma, I Don't Want To Look Like California. I Want To Be Uniquely Texas. And That's Not To Diss Anybody Else.

A Leader Gets Things Done.

I'm Actually For Gun Control -- Use Both Hands.

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.

Although Mr. Trump Talks An Interesting And Entertaining Game, Rarely Do I Hear Him Lay Out Specifics.

It's... Time To Introduce Scholarship Programs That Give Students A Choice, Especially Those Who Are Locked Into Low-performing Schools.

We Want Taxpayers, Not Tax Wasters.

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.

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.

Religious Freedom Does Not Mean Freedom From Religion.

We Understand That You Have To Create An Environment Where That Those Men And Women Who Are Entrepreneurs Can Risk Their Capital And Have An Opportunity To Get A Return On Their Investment. That's How Jobs Are Created. And That's What Americans Are Looking For, Is That Type Of Vision.

Our Goal Is To Displace The Entrenched Powers In Washington, Restore The Rightful Balance Between The State And Federal Government.

I Come By My Conservatism Authentically, Not By Convenience. And I Offer The American People A New Direction.

Obama Is A President, Who I Think Is Anti-jobs.

Conservatives Are Winning Offices, And Champions Of Big Government Are Cleaning Out Their Desks Right Now.

Those Jobs Flee Other States Because Of Factors Like Excessive Taxation, Punitive Regulation And Frivolous Lawsuits.

Our View Is That Individuals And Families Can Govern Their Lives Better Than Bureaucrats.

And I Have A Message For The Liberals And The Defenders Of The Status Quo: We're Just Getting Started.

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