Rick Perry Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.”

“If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already have that. He's destroying our economy. I'm a doer, not a talker.”

“What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.”

“Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.”

“Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'”

“And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.”

“I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses.”

“We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.”

“In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing, while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized.”

“Texas created more jobs in 2008 than the rest of the states - combined.”