Rick Perry Quotes
Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'
Perry, Rick. "Remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference." Conservative Political Action Conference, 7 Mar. 2014, National Harbor, MD. Address.
It has been true for most of American history with exceptions in depressions and some of the bad recessions. However after the 2008 economic meltdown of the George W. Bush Administration and the Great Recession that followed up to the time of this interview, it had not been true and one of Brooks' political objectives was to make it so again.
While many citizens in the state are very appreciative of this viewpoint, others feel that the nation should come first.
James Richard "Rick" Perry is an American politician who served as the 14th United States Secretary of Energy from 2017 to 2019 and as the 47th Governor of Texas from 2000 to 2015. Perry also ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the 2012 and 2016 elections.