Who is Rick Perry

James Richard Perry (born March 4, 1950) is an American politician who served as the 14th United States secretary of energy from 2017 to 2019 and as the 47th governor of Texas from 2000 to 2015. Perry also ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the 2012 and 2016 elections, losing to Mitt Romney and Donald Trump, respectively.

Born into a family of cotton farmers in Haskell, Texas, Perry graduated from Texas A&M University in 1972 and entered into the United States Air Force, serving a five-year stint and achieving the rank of captain. After leaving the Air Force in 1977, Perry returned to Texas and entered politics, serving as a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1985 to 1991. In 1989, Perry switched parties...
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Rick Perry Quotes

• Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.
• Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business - men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know it's going to cost us and cost us a lot.
• We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.
• Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.
• I got all the respect in the world for the front-runners in this race, but ask yourself: If we replace a Democratic insider with a Republican insider, you think we're really going to change Washington, D.C.? You don't have to settle for Washington and Wall Street insiders who supported the Wall Street bailout and the Obamacare individual mandate.

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Comments about Rick Perry

• Yayroger: someone is a big rick perry fan.
• Texasrockfeed: conflict within the band led to the departure of guitarists joe perry and brad whitford in 1979 and 1981 respectively. they were replaced by jimmy crespo and rick dufay.
• Vqnerdballs: ok but what i wanna know is how lou wilson got a life-sized payment day, like is that a rick perry original or did the kimmel team make him one just for this joke
• Grizwald87: libertarians tend to exploit/fall for this phenomenon by suggesting cutting departments and programs people *don't* understand, e.g. rick perry promising to shutter the doe without either his audience or he himself knowing that it contained the entire us nuclear weapons program.
• Polimashup: martin o'malley has a secret crush on rick perry uwu

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