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Rick Perry
stated on June 19, 2017 in an interview:

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

By John Kruzel • June 22, 2017

Rick Perry
stated on February 24, 2015 in a speech:

"Thomas Paine wrote that ‘the duty of a patriot is to protect his country from his government.’"

By Sean Gorman • March 9, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on February 11, 2015 in a statement:

"Obama has chosen to deny the vicious anti-Semitic motivation of the attack on a kosher Jewish grocery in Paris."

By Lauren Carroll • February 12, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on February 5, 2014 in an interview with the Texas Tribune and Washington Post.:

"When I came into office, our vaccination rate in Texas was 65 percent. When I left two weeks ago, it was 95 percent."

By W. Gardner Selby • February 12, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on September 18, 2013 in a discussion on CNN's "Crossfire":

"Every engine manufacturer in the United States is now in the state of Texas."

By Jon Greenberg • September 20, 2013

Rick Perry
stated on February 22, 2013 in remarks at a Washington, D.C. event.:

Says Houston is "home to more doctors, more nurses, more researchers than any other place in the world."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 21, 2013

Rick Perry
stated on January 9, 2013 in a press conference.:

Says Texas public school funding grew three times the rate of enrollment from 2002 to 2012.

By W. Gardner Selby • January 16, 2013

Rick Perry
stated on September 21, 2012 in a tweet.:

Says Barack Obama has added $16 trillion to the national debt.

By W. Gardner Selby • September 25, 2012

Rick Perry
stated on December 7, 2011 in an Iowa TV ad.:

Our "kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school."

By W. Gardner Selby • December 9, 2011

Rick Perry
stated on October 28, 2011 in remarks at the Cornerstone Action Dinner in Manchester, N.H.:

Under energy efficiency legislation sponsored by U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, "federal bureaucrats could take over the local building code enforcement in your city if so-called ‘green mandates’ are not complied with quickly enough."

By Jake Berry • November 15, 2011

Rick Perry
stated on October 25, 2011 in an interview.:

Says that under his tax plan, "no matter where you are in the stratosphere, you're going to be getting a tax cut."

By W. Gardner Selby • November 7, 2011

Rick Perry
stated on September 22, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Orlando.:

Says he "got lobbied" by a woman with late-stage cancer about vaccinating Texas girls against a virus that can cause cervical cancer.

By W. Gardner Selby • September 23, 2011

Rick Perry
stated on September 12, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate:

Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme."

By Louis Jacobson • September 13, 2011

Rick Perry
stated on August 17, 2011 in a speech at "Politics and Eggs" in Bedford, N.H.:

Says Texas gained 21,000 doctors due to tort reform.

By Jon Greenberg • August 25, 2011

Rick Perry
stated on August 17, 2011 in a campaign stop in New Hampshire:

Scientists are "questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change. … (It is) more and more being put into question."

By Angie Drobnic Holan, David G. Taylor • August 22, 2011

Rick Perry
stated on August 18, 2011 in remarks during a campaign stop in New Hampshire:

"In Texas, we teach both creationism and evolution in our public schools."

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms, W. Gardner Selby • August 19, 2011

Rick Perry
stated on August 15, 2011 in a speech.:

Says the government wants to require farm tractor drivers to hold commercial driver’s licenses even if they’re just crossing a single public road.

By W. Gardner Selby • August 16, 2011

Rick Perry
stated on June 29, 2011 in a press release:

Says legislative debate of airport pat-down procedures initiated federal changes in security procedures.

By W. Gardner Selby • July 11, 2011

Rick Perry
stated on March 7, 2011 in a comment to reporters.:

Says the state’s budget shortfall is "not that much different" than it was in 2003.

By W. Gardner Selby • March 22, 2011

Rick Perry
stated on January 18, 2011 in his inauguration address:

Says the first word spoken from the moon was "Houston."

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 22, 2011

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