Rick Perry
Rick Perry
James Richard "Rick" Perryis an American politician who served as the 47th Governor of Texas from December 2000 to January 2015. A Republican, he 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. Perry was the longest-serving governor in Texas history...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth4 March 1950
CityPaint Creek, TX
CountryUnited States of America
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When our work is done, parents won't measure our success by how much money we spend, but whether more children learn.
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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.
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Above all, let us pray for our children.
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I've never struggled with that at all. In the state of Texas, if you come into our state and you kill one of our children, you kill a police officer, you're involved with another crime and you kill one of our citizens, you will face the ultimate justice in the state of Texas, and that is you will be executed.
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That the Texas Legislature, that the Texas school boards, the Texas teachers, we collectively know best how to educate our children, rather than some bureaucrat in Washington.
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Not every child learns for the same purpose, not every child thrives in the same settings and schools. Limiting a child to just one opportunity does nothing more than limit that child's future. The way forward must involve more public charter schools, which offer parents a tuition-free alternative to their neighborhood school.
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But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.
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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.
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enact a housing program that gives families and individuals displaced by Hurricane Katrina the leverage to secure a long-term residence in their home state of Louisiana, or the location of their choice.
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Questions surrounding testimony from the key witness in these cases, coupled with recommendations from the Board of Pardons and Paroles, weighed heavily on my final decision,
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Even though people right here in Beaumont and Port Arthur and this part of Orange County really got whacked, the rest of the state missed a bullet.
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Between Katrina and our preparations for this, people understand this isn't something you're going to play around with,
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Every time a teacher walks through the classroom doors, young lives and the future of Texas changes for the better,
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Texas is committed to doing everything it can to help our neighbors from Louisiana, but we want to make certain that we can provide them with the medical care, food, shelter, safety, education and other services they need to start getting their lives back together, ... Local officials are beginning to notify us that they are quickly approaching capacity in the number of evacuees they believe they can assist.