We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.

If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.

I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school.

This system is really broken. No Child Left Behind has really failed and the only way to solve education is to leave one governor behind.

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.

We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.