When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.

You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.

The fight for the future of Texas is just beginning.

The last thing Texas women need in their lives is Greg Abbott.

Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.

A tree fell on Greg Abbott - he sued and got millions.

Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future.

Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.

I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.

The best of Texas is yet to come.

I am running for my Senate district in 2014 and looking forward hopefully to earning the confidence of my community once again and being reelected for that seat.

MURRY: Resolutions are a complete waste of time. They're just this meaningless ritual, empty promises we make and break within hours of each other.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

If you hate your life, you haven't' seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and doesn't' fit you.

My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.

Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.

People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.

I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing they weren't the same thing.

You may cross many bridges and you may travel many roads, but you will always carry your own nature with you! Your nature is your shadow!

It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.

The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure.