It is the reason for this country. It is to the nation like the Bible is to the church.

The real and fatal gap at the heart of the prosecution case is that they haven’t been able to lead any evidence at all that could establish that the case containing the bomb started at...

We have been contacted by numerous national political leaders, including many potential Republican presidential candidates, who want to help Gov. Perry win re-election.

I think the primary voters will see right through that. Republican primary voters need to know if trial lawyers have picked a candidate in the Republican primary and who that candidate is.

Gov. Perry is someone who has a deep understanding of how important agriculture is in Texas.

It may be something we can’t stop at this point. We’ll have to see. If enough people complain, we will stand with the citizens.

Some candidates in this race are sure to take a more negative tone and try to convince voters that our state has done nothing right in the last few years, but Texans will know better.

No decision has been made. There will be a very open public hearing.

So far, all the people of Texas have heard from Chris Bell is criticisms and complaints about one thing or another.

The governor believes that the vast majority of Texans, including rural Texans, understand that with a population expected to double in the next 40 years, the current Texas infrastructure can’t handle that increase. Something has...

All the rest of the candidates at this point are in a race to see who can hate Rick Perry the most. The people of Texas are not going to elect the next leader of...

A lot of the areas that are still without power, water. They’re keeping notes on napkins.

If there is a need to tap state resources, then we’ll cross that bridge. But that need is not apparent today.

The governor appoints people to boards who not only share his philosophies and his principles but who also support him as governor. And, yes, some of those people may have given him money in the...

The thing I find confusing about money is, though everyone is trying to get it, the more I have, the worse I feel. I suppose that is why I always get rid of it as...

The group heard today from a candidate who offered no concrete plans, no solutions to the education challenges that face Texas and no way to pay for the few ideas she put forward.

It is the federal government’s responsibly to secure the border, including ours, and they have not done a very good job of it. The federal government is going to have to step up.

We’re still in the very first stages of identifying and modeling business processes and IT will then map those processes to the appropriate data sources.

It’s more of a situation that we are a few weeks from a special session and that is where his focus is right now. However, this group does tend to be particularly hostile towards finding...

Gov. Perry’s opponents are in a race to see who can be the most negative and who can hate Rick Perry the most. Texas voters are not going to elect someone based on who hates...

I don’t think it was ever in concrete that there had to be 25,000 in any particular area. That is where the bulk of them were going to go, in the three major metro areas.

He mainly uses a King Air 200. If he has to go clear across state, he might charter a jet.

We have notified FEMA and Louisiana officials that we are nearing capacity.

If I only drink beer, nothing stronger, then by the end of the night I can generally recognize myself as a reasonable human being, and more importantly, wake up that way.

The governor appoints good capable men and women, who share his philosophy and his principles, to boards and commissions in state government.

Is there an area where we think we may be deficient? The answer is no. We’ll adjust and do what we need to do.

The independent auditor is appointed by the House and the Senate. The governor’s office has nothing to do with the auditor. In fact, he audits us. He is completely and totally independent.

That’s not to say it won’t happen, but for the first time in days there were not any buses.

We have numerous conversations with numerous different education stakeholders.

I cannot trust my other side, my drunken side, to act in my best interests anymore.

She will, without a doubt, try to sabotage this session any way she can because it will be to her political benefit.

[Perry has no plans to take a similar step] though the option remains on the table, … He is more concerned with reminding the federal government that securing the national borders is a federal, not...

Britain and America never thought Libya would accept it. It would look good from a public relations perspective but there was no hope in hell that Libya would accept it.

If that pressure valve has been turned off, if you will, then that is a positive development. It still may be necessary, depending on what happens with the shelters, people just showing up. It’s still...

He has supported across-the-board pay raises for teachers and incentive pay in the past, but the funding mechanism for our schools must be addressed first.

We don’t know where, we don’t know a timetable yet.