The Ruiz litigation transformed our prison from a backwards Southern plantation-style system into a modern penal system.

If I've got money to change an election, it's going to be a lot easier on me to change your mind. If I'm only trying to change your mind on the basis of your intellect and patriotism, it's much harder.

Dallas and Austin have the poorest rich kids on the block.

It is totally about tax cuts. Our current deficits are not the result of critical spending to help low-income Americans. They are the result of tax cuts given in 2001 and 2003.

You took an area that already has a struggling social service safety net, and into that net you dumped 250,000 people who desperately need help. We weren't helping the folks who were already here and now we're really going to have to stretch.

But I'm not one to look for a final year to say goodbye to everyone, that's not my style, I'm a private person,