When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home. – Rick Perry
Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation – not cynicism and combat. – Rick Perry
Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or the ability to vote with your feet. If you dont support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol – dont come to Texas. If you dont like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, dont move to California. – Rick Perry
I tell again the oldest and the newest story of all the world, — the story of Invincible Love! This tale divine — ancient as the beginning of things, fresh and young as the passing hour — has forms and names various as humanity. – Amelia E. Huddleston Barr, A Rose of a Hundred Leaves: A Love Story, 1891