Rick Perry Quotes

We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen.

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• I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.

  

  Ted Rall
  • American
  • Society
  • First

• There is no one true church.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • True
  • Church

• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Done
  • See
  • Apple

• Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • World
  • Animal

• Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Age
  • Generation
  • Own

• A heart makes a good home for the friend.

  

  Yunus Emre
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Home

• If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Great
  • Want
  • You

• Children in early adolescence tend to exaggerate or romanticize sexual experiences and that adolescents with disorganized families, such as the complainant, are even more prone to such behavior.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Children

• My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

  

  Joe Eszterhas
  • Father
  • Immigration

• In basketball, there's a lot of pushing, grabbing, and shoving going on that nobody else sees. That's why I'm training with MMA fighter Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Why
  • Training
  • Basketball

• It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.

  

  Jimmy Rushing

• I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

  

  Brian Sandoval
  • Support

• Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Interesting

• I love the wilder, more outlandish characters that are hard to make believable. Those are the ones I want to play.

  

  Allison Janney

• I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women.

  

  Bernard Manning
  • Men
  • Women
  • Bisexual

• Being my own boss and working inside an industry that's not really an industry, I need to keep busy and keep working. The only way to make money in music - unless you're managing someone - is to tour, and even that depends on where you are at.

  

  Kyp Malone
  • Music
  • Money
  • Boss

• My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage - everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.

  

  Lee Strobel
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• Dick Gregory will be greatly missed. Humbly, and in his stead, 'Turn Me Loose' carries on to be his voice and his inspiration for all who wish to laugh at the absurdity of racism and be enlightened by his spirit of justice.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Justice
  • Inspiration
  • Voice

• You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.

  

  Leonard Woolf
  • Desire
  • Moon
  • Extremely

• To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Engagement

• I've never made a dime from a record sale in the history of my record deal. I've been very happy with my sales, and certainly my audience has been very supportive. I make a living going out and playing shows.

  

  Lyle Lovett
  • History
  • Happy
  • Sales

• You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it.

  

  Bob Nelson

• We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Cutting
  • Raises
  • Deficit