Only one out of every eight business is paying to support our system. |
Packing the Ethics Committee with DeLay loyalists further immunizes the Republican congressional leadership not just from the Democrats but also from democracy. |
Penn State is Penn State, and I like what they stand for, ... I didn't want to miss their climb to the top. |
Perry has made an awful mess of things and has proven he can't even lead a silent prayer. If we're going to find solutions, we have to elect a governor who has the courage of his convictions. |
Rick Perry is taking his ethics lessons from Tom DeLay. |
Rick Perry just doesn't get it, |
So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age. |
Some people have an ongoing poker game. We had an ongoing Twister game. |
Someone shouts food fight; food starts flying; management comes and tells us to get out or we're calling the police. |
Spread the burden evenly and require businesses in Texas, where we have a very favorable business environment to pay more of their fair share. |
Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just to a closed circle of entrenched ideologues. |
Texas is still every bit as great as it ever was. We simply need leaders bold enough to release its greatness. |
That's when we got hit with the highest tuition increases in the country. At A&M-Texarkana, tuition and fees went up 48 percent. Students are now paying an extra $1,030 a year because of Rick Perry's tuition deregulation, which has been an absolute failure. |
The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it. |
The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves. But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and his cohorts have implemented a self protection system. Obviously, it wasn't good for democracy. |