"And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working."

"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."

"Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business - men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know it's going to cost us and cost us a lot."

"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.'"

"When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him."

"It is a profound truth that a visionary sees the unseen possibilities in the heart of common struggles."

"Patience is a virtue because the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."

"In the arithmetic of human affection, the more you give, the more you retain. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."