Top 140 Rick Perry Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I don’t want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don’t want to look like Oklahoma, I don’t want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that’s not to diss anybody else.”

— Rick Perry

52. “In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That’s what makes them criminals.”

— Rick Perry

53. “The citizens of America and the citizens of Texas expect to be able to live in safety in their communities. That’s what the rule of law is truly all about.”

— Rick Perry

54. “Abstinence works, I know it from my own personal life, abstinence works.”

— Rick Perry

55. “Obama is a president, who I think is anti-jobs.”

— Rick Perry

56. “I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.”

— Rick Perry

57. “You have a problem with allowing someone to finish speaking.”

— Rick Perry

58. “Let’s stand up. Let’s speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.”

— Rick Perry

59. “We cannot afford four more years of this misguided socialist policies from President Obama and his administration.”

— Rick Perry

60. “My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.”

— Rick Perry

61. “As Americans, we don’t see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.”

— Rick Perry

62. “Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.”

— Rick Perry

63. “I don’t want to be the president of the United States. I do want to work with the governors across the country to make the states more pivotal, more powerful, as they should be.”

— Rick Perry

64. “Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell.”

— Rick Perry

65. “Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.”

— Rick Perry

66. “Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.”

— Rick Perry

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

— Rick Perry

68. “I think every program needs to stand the sunshine of righteous scrutiny. Whether it’s Social Security, whether it’s Medicaid, whether it’s Medicare.”

— Rick Perry

69. “I’m worried about that man or woman sitting around – the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.”

— Rick Perry

70. “My hope is that that person will come forward that can win the presidency that we can all get behind.”

— Rick Perry

71. “Debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates. It’s pretty hard to be able to sit and lay out your ideas and your concepts with a one-minute response.”

— Rick Perry

72. “I’m all about job creation. That’s what I’ve done for ten years as the governor of Texas, and that’s what I’m focused on.”

— Rick Perry

73. “We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.”

— Rick Perry

74. “In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.”

— Rick Perry

75. “We should also give students more flexibility in the courses they take in high school to prepare them for whatever their goals may be, without sacrificing our rigorous academic standards.”

— Rick Perry

76. “It’s time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government.”

— Rick Perry

77. “It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel.”

— Rick Perry

78. “Who can be against progress, after all? But it’s a fraudulent use of the word – because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can ‘do’ for you.”

— Rick Perry

79. “Juarez is reported to be the most dangerous city in America.”

— Rick Perry

80. “If you rent a U-Haul to move your company, it costs twice as much to go from San Francisco to Austin than the other way around, because you can’t find enough trucks to leave the Golden State.”

— Rick Perry

81. “ISIS represents the worst threat to freedom since Communism!”

— Rick Perry

82. “There is no one who’s gonna be sitting on that stage who has the record of job creation I have. There’s one in particular who’s created jobs all around the world. While he was the governor of Massachusetts he didn’t create many jobs.”

— Rick Perry

83. “Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.”

— Rick Perry

84. “Our view is that individuals and families can govern their lives better than bureaucrats.”

— Rick Perry

85. “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.’”

— Rick Perry

86. “America does not need to be worried with bailing out a European country that has made irresponsible expenditures, and then all of a sudden, throws their hands up and say, Oh, please come save us. That is not our responsibility in the United States of America.”

— Rick Perry

87. “We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.”

— Rick Perry

88. “You see, as Americans we’re not defined by class, and we will never be told our place. What makes our nation exceptional is that anyone, from any background, can climb the highest of heights.”

— Rick Perry

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

— Rick Perry

90. “The economy is very different in the world that we’re living in. And I think Americans are looking for executive leadership that actually has some experience of creating jobs.”

— Rick Perry

91. “The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.”

— Rick Perry

92. “As long as it’s not me, I’ll be cool.”

— Rick Perry

93. “I happily cling to my guns and my God, even if President Obama thinks that that is a simpleminded thing in his elitist heart.”

— Rick Perry

94. “You got to have a courageous president to stand up and says, listen, if – if you send a bill to me that spends more money than what we’ve coming in, I’ll veto it. I mean, I’m going to try to work with you the best I can, but I’m going to veto it.”

— Rick Perry

95. “We will reverse course on the heavy hand of regulation, discarding Dodd-Frank and any other regulations that advance a political agenda at the expense of jobs and investment on Main Street.”

— Rick Perry

96. “We understand that you have to create an environment where that those men and women who are entrepreneurs can risk their capital and have an opportunity to get a return on their investment. That’s how jobs are created. And that’s what Americans are looking for, is that type of vision.”

— Rick Perry

97. “Yeah, that’s a cool name, but it’s a monstrous intrusion into our affairs.”

— Rick Perry

98. “It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.”

— Rick Perry

99. “One of the reasons that Im running for president is I want to make sure that every young man and woman who puts on the uniform of the United States respects highly the president of the United States.”

— Rick Perry

100. “President Obama’s call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity.”

— Rick Perry