If And When We Get Back To

We Stand Up And Proudly Proclaim That Washington Is Not Our Caretaker And We Reject A State, In Margaret Thatcher's Words, A State That Takes Too Much From Us To Do Too Much For Us.

We Have To Identify Everybody That's Here, And There's Going To Be An Appropriate Discussion In Congress On How To Deal With An Individual Who Has Been Here Maybe For Some Long Period Of Time. Amnesty Is Not On The Table Period. There Will Be No Amnesty In The United States. We're A Country Of Law And The Idea That We're Going To Tell People That Somehow Or Another That That's All Forgiven Is Not Going To Happen. How We Deal With Them Is A Conversation. I Don't Know If I Know All The Answers. I Want To Talk To The American People.

Mexico Is An Important Trading Partner, It's The Number One Trading Partner For The State Of Texas. We Have Had Dealings With Them, Shared A Border With Them. We Have Had Our Challenges, But At The End Of The Day We Want A Good Relationship With Mexico.

We Must Do Right And Risk The Consequences.

I Stand Before You As The Governor Of Texas But Also Stand Before You The Son Of Two Tenant Farmers. Ray Perry Who Came Home After 35 Bombing Missions Over Europe To Work His Little Corner Of Land Out There And Amelia Who Made Sure That My Sister Milla And I Had Everything That We Needed, Included Hand Sewing My Clothes Until I Went Off To College.