Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.

Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties.

As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.

Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.

America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.