And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.

The most important thing for us is to save lives.

It's a Tenth Amendment issue. If you want Washington, if you want to implement their standards, that's your call... We certainly had higher standards than Common Core, so it was a very easy decision for Texans, myself and the legislature included, to basically say we still believe that Texans know how to best run Texas.

Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.

When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.

From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented.

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