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Rick Perry
stated on August 14, 2019 in a speech:

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

By Madlin Mekelburg • August 27, 2019

Rick Perry
stated on June 27, 2017 in a White House briefing:

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

By W. Gardner Selby • June 30, 2017

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 January 15, 2016 in Radio interview:

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

By Eleanor Dearman • February 27, 2016

Rick Perry
stated on August 2, 2015 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday":

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

By Linda Qiu • August 2, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 in his speech declaring his candidacy for president:

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

By Bradley Saacks • July 26, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on July 2, 2015 in a speech at the National Press Club:

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

By W. Gardner Selby • July 20, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 in his declaration for president:

"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."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 19, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 in his speech declaring his candidacy for president:

"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 400,000 jobs."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 8, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on May 7, 2015 in a visit to Deerfield, NH:

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

By Clay Wirestone • June 5, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on May 16, 2015 in a speech in Iowa:

"One out of five of our children live in a family that’s on food stamps."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 3, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on May 5, 2015 in an oped column:

On reauthorization of Export-Import Bank.

By W. Gardner Selby • May 7, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on April 7, 2015 in an interview with the Texas Tribune:

On in-state tuition for unauthorized immigrants.

By W. Gardner Selby • April 15, 2015

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 27, 2015 in a web ad:

"At this particular point in time, looking at the field, there’s only one individual that’s ever had the uniform of his country on—and that’s me."

By Alex Wilts, W. Gardner Selby • March 4, 2015

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

"America produces more oil and gas than any other nation in the world."

By Sean Gorman • March 2, 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 January 15, 2015 in valedictory speech as governor to the Texas Legislature:

Texas has "the lowest crime rate in this state since 1968" because of changes in law regarding nonviolent drug offenders.

By W. Gardner Selby • February 3, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on January 26, 2015 in a breakfast talk in Iowa:

The U.S. unemployment rate has "been massaged, it’s been doctored."

By W. Gardner Selby • January 26, 2015

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