The citizens of America and the citizens of Texas expect to be able to live in safety in their communities. That's what the rule of law is truly all about.

When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.

Aggies have a really interesting way of admitting defeat. We've never been outscored. We just ran out of time.

As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.

Now, I have no doubt that Mitt Romney was worried about pink slips whether he was going to have enough of them to hand out because his company Bain Capital and all of the jobs that they killed I'm sure he was worried he would run out of pink slips.

I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.

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.