According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.

In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That's what makes them criminals.

The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time.

Running for the presidency's not an IQ test.

I may have the genetic coding that Im inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.

I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses.

Every life is precious.

Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a foreign source.

Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.

I wasn't ready for goodbye, not now, not yet. Stay with me tonight, please don't go just yet.

Keep burning the flame of discontent within you until you get the joy of satisfaction.

I feel more comfortable in saris than gowns.

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.

I was in choir [at school].

Scenes change while shooting. Nowadays, while you're shooting the movie, you're cutting at the same time.

All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.

We are not saved by good works; we are saved for good works. The Christian lifestyle is to be a lifestyle of goodness.

Man can be literally transformed by his own repentance and by God's gift of forgiveness.