Ive never supported a payroll tax.

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

We need a human presence at the border and a humane presence at the border.

If we don't change the way Washington operates we're going to bankrupt our children and grandchildren.

I support secure borders both north and south and I support a guest worker program for those here today illegally. Labor and skilled workers are critical to our Texas economy.

If you like Texas and you like our economy, I helped create all that and all those jobs and you will love it when David Dewhurst goes to Washington.

The two fundamental skills of any leader are creativity and initiative. Creativity to find solutions and initiative to take action on them.

But perhaps people who liked to write aways made lists! Just for the fun of it.

Important decisions are better made after a good nights sleep

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

Rock 'n' roll is about music. Music. Music. Music. It's not about you, it's not about me, it's not about Oasis. It's about the tunes.

Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.

There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.