"I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed, included hand sewing my clothes until I went off to college."

"As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens."

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

"When a criminal breaks into your home I'll let the liberals call the lawyer. I'm going to call Smith &amp Wesson."

"True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you."

"It is a unyielding truth that a life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers."

"True wisdom begins when you realize every challenge is an invitation to grow stronger."