Rick Perry

"The U.S. now leads the world in producing both oil and natural gas, and at the same time reducing energy-related emissions."

France "wouldn’t buy Texas beef for some reason, yet 76 percent of their energy comes from nuclear power."

"Most likely the primary control knob (for the earth’s temperature) is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in."

"Building a wall" on the U.S.-Mexico border "will take literally years."

Says Donald Trump is for a single-payer health care system.

"I deployed the Texas National Guard" to the Texas-Mexico border. "And the policy worked; apprehensions at the border declined 74 percent."

"Texas’ high school graduation rate went from 27th in the country in 2002, to second highest in the country in 2013."

"Texas now has the second-highest high school graduation rate in the country. And it has the highest graduation rate for African Americans and Hispanics."

"In the last seven years of my tenure, Texas created 1.5 million new jobs. As a matter of fact, without Texas, America would have lost…

"The entirety of North America -- Canada, the United States and Mexico -- there's more known reserves in those three countries than in Russia and…