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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The only people in the whole world that Salim loved had been killed by the virus that traveled to America in his own blood.

If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule.

Too much of nothing, it just makes a fellow mean.

It's ironic, isn't it? Our goal was great. Our path was dark.

Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort.

All will be lost apart from happiness.

It's easier to stop bad things than to pass good things.

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.

Eyes that droop like summer flowers.

All genuine progress results from finding new facts