"During my time as a judge, as a justice, and as attorney general, I've had one overarching goal, and that is a strict interpretation and application of the laws and the Constitution. I would be Madisonian."

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Source : "Greg Abbott's War". Interview with Jake Silverstein, www.texasmonthly.com. September 2012.

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“As we prepare our homes to be places where the Spirit is welcome, we will be prepared to feel more 'at home' when we enter the House of the Lord.”
“When I gave up dope and alcohol, my immediate feeling was 'I've saved my life, but there'll be a price because I'll have nothing that buzzes me any more'. But I enjoyed my kids. My wife loved me and I loved her. And eventually the writing came back and I discovered that the writing was enough. Stupid thing is that probably it always had been.”
“Purge, emerge and flourish. It's natural.”
“My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.”
“I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis, Mary Gaitskill, bell hooks.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a science for which this race created a new era.(...) Besides making laudatory mention of that which we owe to the natural science of the Arabs in both the terrestrial and celestial spheres, we must likewise allude to their contributions in separate paths of intellectual development to the general mass of mathematical science.”

Source : "Cosmos". Book by H.G. Bohn, v2, p. 589,595, 1860.
“I hope you find what youâ€™re looking for,â€ Micah said. â€œIâ€™ve already stopped looking,â€ Damon said quietly. â€œItâ€™s kind of hard to look for something youâ€™ve stopped believing in.”
“I ain't done nothing wrong, but love thy self. And harm other ***** that wanna stop my health.”

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