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Our economy grew at double the rate of the nation. We created 1.3 million jobs. We led the nation seven out of those eight years. We were only one of two states that went to AAA bond rating. I cut taxes, $19 billion. If you do that and apply conservative principles the right way, you create an environment where everybody rises up.
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When businesses go through hard times, through down markets, what do they do is they challenge every basic assumption of how they operate. They innovate. They create disruption for a while that leads them to even greater heights when the economy turns around.
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Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.
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My wife is not a public person. She is uncomfortable with the limelight, which is why I love her. I don't want a political wife - I want someone who, when I get home, I can have a normal life with.
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Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.
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There's a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives.
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Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.
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The Common Core State Standards are more rigorous standards than the great majority of states had in place previously.
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You know, when you run you got to be all in and you take risks of winning and losing.
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Please clap.
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I miss being governor.
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A four percent growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are job killers. You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn't suppress wages and kill jobs.
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Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.
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It's a volatile time.
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People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know I will do what I can, but there are limits to what any particular person - irrespective of the title they currently hold - can do.
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Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.
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I have a blessed life.
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I'm fairly accessible.
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You know what? As it relates to my brother, there is one thing I know for sure: he kept us safe.
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I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways.
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I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile.
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Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.