We're all in this together. They are our neighbors. By the grace of God — 350 miles west — and this could have hit Houston, |
We're getting calls across the country from people who want to help, ... It's going to be the largest influx of refugees in American history. |
we're going to get through this. |
We're going to pull together so that these families can find as much normalcy as we can. We're going to get through this together as one American family. |
We're gonna get through this. |
We're neighbors and we're going to pull together. |
We're playing it by ear. We have a massive emergency in south Louisiana. |
We're ready when they are, |
What is at stake here is nothing less than the public trust, and whether that trust has been violated at the taxpayers' expense to provide tax benefits to political contributors, |
What you see in all of their eyes and what you see in all their action is a great pride and professionalism with which they do their job. They believe in what they're doing there. And that is not only protecting America's freedoms, but also giving hope to a part of the world that really doesn't even know what those freedoms can mean to them. |
When our work is done, parents won't measure our success by how much money we spend, but whether more children learn. |
While I hope to one day reach a legislative consensus on school finance, we can no longer delay taking action that will benefit schoolchildren, parents, and taxpayers, ... They deserve better than unfulfilled promises and continued delays. They deserve immediate action. |
While the legislative session has now ended, the need for school reform has not and Texans can rest assured that even though the legislature did not act, I will, ... The people have demanded reform, they have been promised reform and I intend to deliver reform using the full constitutional authority of the executive branch. |
While the Legislature adjourned with little success, the need for education reform is simply too great to wait for lawmakers to overcome their differences, |
With more than 1,200 miles of border shared with Mexico, Texas is clearly at the center of the important debate about how best to secure our border, ... In this post-9/11 era, there is no such thing as homeland security without border security. |