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
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.
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,
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.
Between Katrina and our preparations for this, people understand this isn't something you're going to play around with,
Every time a teacher walks through the classroom doors, young lives and the future of Texas changes for the better,
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.
You don't just go out and plug up an interstate on one side and shift it over in an hour or two. I mean, it takes some time. It takes some personnel.
The time to leave is now, ... It quite likely will be a devastating storm.
We have truly dodged a major bullet here,
Let's make what Americans buy. Buy what Americans make. And sell it to the world.
Our party cannot be all things to all people. It can't be. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's stop trying to curry favor with them.
We are a resilient country. We've been through a Civil War; we've been through two World Wars. We've been through a Great Depression; we even made it through Jimmy Carter! We will make it through the Obama years!
Our best days are in front of us. We can reform those entitlements, we can change that corporate tax code and lower it. We can put America back on track on a growth level and a growth rate that we've never seen in the history of this country.
We have the power to make things new again. To project American strength again, to get our economy going again.