Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

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.

The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time.

Running for the presidency's not an IQ test.

I may have the genetic coding that Im inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.

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

Every life is precious.

Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a foreign source.

Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.

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

According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.

You live by whatever rules you need to govern your life the best you think. Let's just try not to encroach.

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language

There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

Ideally, the star will be replaced within eight hours. This sends the message that no single individual is bigger than the company.

People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.

I do like certain kinds of frames for work. That's important.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.