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But of course, now we're told we're in recovery but this sure doesn't feel like a recovery to more than 9 percent of the Americans out there who are unemployed, or the 16 percent of the African-Americans, 11 percent of Hispanics in the same position, or the millions who can only find part-time work or those who have even stopped looking for a job.

I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and dreamed up, but it's not working.

We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do.

We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that's even stronger than a handshake in Texas.

We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.

We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years.

We cannot afford four more years of this misguided socialist policies from President Obama and his administration.

We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.

The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American,and a threat to every private sector job in this country.

Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.

Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.

My hope is that that person will come forward that can win the presidency that we can all get behind.

Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.

Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.

It's time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government.

Page one of any economic plan to get America working is to give a pink slip to the current resident in the White House.

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.

I'm all about job creation. That's what I've done for ten years as the governor of Texas, and that's what I'm focused on.

I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.

It's time to bring tough medicine to Washington. No longer will policy be set by K Street, it will be dictated by Main Street.