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James Richard "Rick" Perry (born March 4, 1950) is an American politician who is the 47th and current Governor of Texas.

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I happen to think that the states are the most important foundation of our union.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 months ago Top News

Young people are going to inherit this place so let them be heard early on, i happen to think that the states are the most important foundation of our union.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 months ago Top News

I said,' Mr. President, I know there are people that say -- you know, you said you were the chosen one.' And I said,' you were.' I said,' if you're a believing Christian, you understand God's plan for the people who rule and judge over us on this planet in our government.'.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

I actually gave the President a little one-pager on Old Testament kings about a month ago, i said,' Mr. President, I know there are people that say -- you know, you said you were the chosen one.' And I said,' you were.' I said,' if you're a believing Christian, you understand God's plan for the people who rule and judge over us on this planet in our government.'.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

I'm a big believer that the God of our universe is still very active in the details of the day-to-day lives of government, you know, Barack Obama doesn't get to be the President of the United States without being ordained by God. Neither did Donald Trump.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

I didn't hear it -- at all.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

We are the number one oil and gas producer in the world, we don't intend to use it as a weapon. We intend to make it available and in as many places and as competitively priced as we can.

– Rick Perry

Found on Reuters 2 years ago U.S.

The kingdom and the leadership in the kingdom .. will find a way to sign a 1,2,3 agreement with the United States, I think.

– Rick Perry

Found on Reuters 2 years ago U.S.

I don't know, i'm working at the will of the President, just like I always have.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

And as I recall the conversation, he said,' Look, the President is really concerned that there are people in Ukraine that tried to beat him during this presidential election,'.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

I don't know whether State Department was crap or what.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

There is much work to be done in these upcoming weeks and I remain fully committed to accomplishing the goals that I set out to accomplish at the beginning of my tenure.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

I don't know whether that was crap or what.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

And as I recall the conversation, he said, 'Look, the President is really concerned that there are people in Ukraine that tried to beat him during this presidential election,' 'He thinks they're corrupt and ... that there are still people over there engaged that are absolutely corrupt.'.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

They've been writing the story for at least nine months now. One of these days they will probably get it right, but it's not today, it's not tomorrow, it's not next month.

– Rick Perry

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Politics

I'll just briefly say we're going to work with Congress and answer all their questions.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

I want to reiterate that United States wholeheartedly condemns Irans attack on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and we call on other nations to do the same.

– Rick Perry

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

Why not come and talk to the number one oil and gas producing country in the world?

– Rick Perry

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Environment

Iran knows what the rules of being a good citizen in the world are, if they continue to live outside of the bounds of that, I suspect the U.S. will continue to have a very strong and harsh line toward them.

– Rick Perry

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Environment

Feel free to repost !!

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 2 years ago World

I don't want to give you a date specific.

– Rick Perry

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Politics

I don't, i don't want to give you a date specific.

– Rick Perry

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Politics

The president is pretty straightforward about what he believes and he thinks Nord Stream 2 is not in the European Union's best interest and my bet is he'll be more than happy to tell President Putin that straight to his face.

– Rick Perry

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

You would not want to wager that your liberties and your freedoms in a country - the United States in this case - should be left solely to the free market.

– Rick Perry

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

This is not just singularly an economic issue.

– Rick Perry

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

We need to be prepared for a really long recovery.

– Rick Perry

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

We’ve got some really great people … like [director] Brock Long over at FEMA, the administration is being very focused on making sure the state has everything it needs.

– Rick Perry

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

This is a lot bigger issue than just allowing the United States a couple of plants in the southern part of the United States, this is a massively important issue for the security of America and the security for America's allies.

– Rick Perry

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Business

I am convinced without a doubt that on day one, this very committed conservative American will be ready to be commander-in-chief.

– Rick Perry

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Latest Headlines

Today I am suspending my campaign for the presidency of the United States.

– Rick Perry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Politics

I step aside knowing our party is in good hands, and as long as we listen to the grassroots, the cause of conservatism will be too.

– Rick Perry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Politics

I give you this news with no regrets.

– Rick Perry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Politics

That is why today, I am suspending my campaign for the presidency of the United States.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

You know a broken clock is right once a day, the bottom line is I'm still here, I'm still workin'. We need to be talking about solutions and not just rhetoric out there.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

It'll be a pretty busy day, but that Iran negotiation is going to be torn up on day one, we're going to start the process of securing that border. I'm also going to take a bottle of White-Out with me to get started on all those executive orders that President Obama has put President Obama name to.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

Gov. Perry remains committed to competing in Iowa, as well as South Carolina and New Hampshire, and there are many people across the country who continue to work to elect Rick Perry as president, we wish Sam the best in his next endeavor.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

There's a lot of people from Texas in the race for one thing.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

You know, I'm really proud of the men and women that have volunteered. The vast majority of our folks have volunteered to serve until we get our fundraising back on track.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

Everything hasn't gone exactly like I wanted in the campaign, you know, I'm really proud of the men and women that have volunteered. The vast majority of our folks have volunteered to serve until we get our fundraising back on track.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

I will tell you one thing.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

How can you run for the Republican nomination and be for single-payer healthcare? i ask that with all due respect.

– Rick Perry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Politics

Donald Trump’s campaign fired a staffer Sunday for what it said were racially offensive Facebook posts. ‘Effective immediately, Sam Nunberg, a low-level political adviser, is no longer associated with the Donald Trump For president campaign,’ Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said in an interview. The firing, first reported by CNN, followed a report Friday by Business Insider that Nunberg had posted slurs and other offensive content on his private Facebook page in entries dating to 2007.

– Rick Perry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Politics

The people will see a very focused, disciplined candidate.

– Rick Perry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Politics

I think we have the laws in place. Enforcement of those laws is what seems to be lacking, both in Charleston and here in Lafayette, Louisiana.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Top News

I think that it makes a lot of sense to send a message across this country.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Top News

If we believe in the Second Amendment, and we believe in people's right to protect themselves and defend themselves, and their families. i think we have the laws in place. Enforcement of those laws is what seems to be lacking, both in Charleston and here in Lafayette, Louisiana.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Top News

, Rick Perry suggested Donald Trump with swing state-voters is a headline grabber not a problem solver. ‘ For the last 14 years, I’ve had to live in the real world and deal with real world issues and come up with real world solutions.

– Rick Perry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Politics

I believe that, with all my heart, that if you have the citizens who are well trained, and particularly in these places that are considered to be gun-free zones, that we can stop that type of activity, or stop it before there's as many people that are impacted as what we saw in Lafayette.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

I think we have the laws in place. Enforcement of those laws is what seems to be lacking, both in Charleston and here in Lafayette, Louisiana, we see individuals who are obviously mentally impacted. These are individuals who I think that somewhere, somebody didn't do their job in the standpoint of enforcing the laws that are only on the book.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

I think that it makes a lot of sense to send a message across this country, if we believe in the Second Amendment, and we believe in people's right to protect themselves and defend themselves, and their families.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

His attack on veterans make him unfit to be Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces, and he should immediately withdraw from the race for President.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Top News

The specific policies advanced by the president and his allies on the left amount to little more than throwing money at the problem and walking away.

– Rick Perry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

For too long, we Republicans have been content to lose the black vote because we found that we could win elections without it, when we gave up on trying to win the support of African-Americans, we lost our moral legitimacy as the party of Lincoln.

– Rick Perry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

When we gave up on trying to win the support of African-Americans, we lost our moral legitimacy as the party of Lincoln, i am here to tell you that it is Republicans, not Democrats, who are truly offering black Americans the hope of a better life for themselves and their children.

– Rick Perry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

I am proud to live in a country with an African-American president. But President Obama cannot be proud of the fact that the prevalence of black poverty has actually increased under his leadership, the specific policies advanced by the president and his allies on the left amount to little more than throwing money at the problem and walking away.

– Rick Perry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

Today's ruling ends the false narrative that environmental protection can only be achieved through one-size-fits-all federal mandates and at the expense of economic growth - a premise that has been debunked in states like Texas, where smart regulations have proven economic opportunity and environmental protection are not mutually exclusive.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago U.S.

One size will not fit all. That's not how this country was set up. This week the Supreme Court made decisions that, I'll be real honest with you, I didn't agree with at all, i have said from the get-go that these decisions, particularly that decision about traditional marriage, needed to be made in the states. I believe that with all my heart. That is where that needs to be decided.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

People are going to make mistakes and people know that.

– Rick Perry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Politics

Until you've done it you don't even realize what a challenge it is - these broad array of issues that you just have to have more than just passing knowledge of.

– Rick Perry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Politics

Any time there is an accident like this, the President is clear, he doesn't like for Americans to have guns, and so he uses every opportunity, this being another one, to basically go parrot that message.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

President Obama is left to argue chlorine gas attacks on the Syrian people are not chemical warfare, there is a great price to be paid when America does not lead, and innocent Syrian civilians are paying that price today.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

2016 isn't going to be an election about whoever's got the loftiest rhetoric, folks are going to look past at what people are saying and look at what you've done.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

If it hadn't been for South Carolina, there would be no Texas.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

Jeb Bush don't get to just pick and choose the amendments Jeb Bush like and discard the ones that don't agree with Jeb Bush political agenda.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

A year out from the New Hampshire primaries I'm not sure it means anything.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Top News

I feel comfortable that we'll be able to sit or stand on the stage with the competition and have a really good back and forth.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Top News

I think Americans are looking for somebody to come into Washington D.C. and to get away from all of this drama that we've seen from Secretary Clinton over the course of the last few days, i think they're ready for someone who is not a Washington creation.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Top News

I'm really concerned that -- not just going forward -- but what has been received at the Clinton Foundation over the course of the years and how that affects this individual's judgment.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

I think it falls flat in the face of the American people when it comes to, are you going to trust an individual who has taken that much money from a foreign source? Where's your loyalty?

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

[ Rubio kicks off Marco Rubio national book tour today with an appearance in West Des Moines Iowa. Other stops include South Carolina, Nevada and New Hampshire. ] Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry wraps up New Hampshire trip - Dallas Morning News :.

– Rick Perry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Politics

Granite Staters want to see you often, two or three times isn't enough.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

Leadership does matter, and there are very functional places in this country.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

Don’t they know I am from New Jersey? This stuff doesn’t bother me one bit.

– Rick Perry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Politics

Job creation, not higher taxation, is the best form of revenue generation.

– Rick Perry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Politics

The Response is a prayer event, it is a spiritual event. It is not a political event.

– Rick Perry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago U.S.

Whoever the Republican nominee is, whether it's me or someone else, I hope we will have a legitimate intellectual conversation with the American people about federalism and how to make Washington inconsequential in people's lives.

– Rick Perry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Politics

I basically disregard the critics, they are most likely political hacks who don't have a real interest in having a legitimate conversation about reality.

– Rick Perry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Politics

I was always intrigued with economic development and an economic climate that frees people, it was innate, something I derived from watching people I admired like my father, and it wasn't something I read or studied in school.

– Rick Perry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Politics

Miracles I can't explain, I'll leave those to the good Lord, this is not a miracle. We know how this happened.

– Rick Perry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Politics

If I had any regrets I'd stick around for another four years, i'm ready to go.

– Rick Perry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Politics

If you are an individual who is running for office, this is a good place to be to meet people who have a lot really good ideas about how to to do public policy, and meet men and women who want to see good government put into place, and it's up to the point of, 'Well, I'm gonna loan you not only my name, but lend you some money as well. I'm gonna contribute to your campaign.' And that's all good. That's how this process works.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

It's a target-rich environment, governors are able to talk to businesses from around the country that are looking to re-locate and looking to expand ... I've gotten a few scalps here.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

It is time for the president and Congress to secure our border, followed by meaningful reforms. There is no more time for political grandstanding.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

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