08-31-2011, 05:19 PM
"I think in America from time to time we have to go through some difficult times — and I think we’re going through those difficult economic times for a purpose, to bring us back to those Biblical principles of you know, you don't spend all the money. You work hard for those six years and you put up that seventh year in the warehouse to take you through the hard times. And not spending all of our money. Not asking for Pharaoh to give everything to everybody and to take care of folks because at the end of the day, it's slavery. We become slaves to government." –Rick Perry, June 2011
"Juarez is reported to be the most dangerous city in America." –Rick Perry, referring to a city that is across the Texas border in Mexico, February 28, 2011
"George W. Bush did a incredible job in the presidency, defending us from freedom." –Rick Perry in 2010
“And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it.“ –Barack Obama, addressing a Joint Session of Congress, February 24, 2009
Obama’s argument for bailing out automakers might have been sound, but his history lesson definitely wasn’t. German and French, not American, inventors are credited with coming up with the first cars.
“The Constitution was written explicitly for one purpose: to restrain the federal government.” –Ron Paul, after the New Hampshire primary on Jan. 8, 2008
Tea Partyers might only cite the Constitution for one purpose, but the document actually vastly increased the power of the federal government at the time. Before that, under the Articles of Confederation, centralized authority took a backseat to the states.