Bob Gammage Quotations

No one should be able to peddle your private information for a profit without your express permission. Giving out this information to anyone who can pay the fee is a license to arm stalkers, criminals and identity thieves.

Rick Perry is a weak governor with a record of failure on the issues important to Texas.

Let's put the wealth of the state as a whole on the table. Let's put every conceivable source of revenue on the table and forge a plan where every person in Texas pays their fair share.

Getting rid of the incompetence at the top. We're never going to address the school finance problems, health care issues, in any meaningful way if we don't change the leadership.

I say we put everything on the table first and then see what revenue streams we need. If an income tax is part of the new formula, then we put it before the people. People in this state often vote to tax themselves, through school bonds, so we should put it before them.

Today, unfortunately, our state government has come full circle. Once again we desperately need the people of Texas to take over their state government.

The question as we saw it at the time was not whether a woman should have the right to choose but who should pay once that choice was made. Today, I wouldn't vote that way.

We don't need a state government run from yachts. I will make policy in the state Capitol, not in the Bahamas.

There are businesses in our state that make billions and pay no taxes at all.

There's no way of knowing whether that affected anything or not. I don't think it affected that many, there was a low turnout in both the Republican and Democratic primaries is my understanding.

There's no rationale basis for the quality of any child's education to depend on wealth of property in districts where they live. It's the responsibility of state to fund public education.

This campaign is about reform. It is about opening state policy-making to public scrutiny. It is about restoring the public trust.

In an ideal world, the governor of Texas should denounce the shenanigans of Tom DeLay and his twisted, unethical schemes. But Rick Perry is too weak and too dependent on the wealthy, powerful and ruthless special interests that both he and DeLay work for.

I've got six grandchildren in public schools. They're being robbed of their birthright. I'm not going to tolerate that.

Donna Howard is just the tip of the iceberg. We're going to win races all up and down that ballot in November.

Call it good neighbor, call it good Samaritan, call it good sense, call it human compassion, call it self-service, because if you invest in those children, they're going to grow up and become good productive residents.

General Clark is a great American, great leader, great Democrat and an even better friend. I'm proud to have him by my side on the trail and know that it will be a great boost to our campaign to build better schools, expand access to affordable health care, clean up our environment and restore integrity to Texas government.

The illegal immigration exists because folks on the other side of the border are willing to come here and work hard for substandard wages.

There's a whole lot of disaffected Republican voters out there.

He can be a good governor. I'm not going to take anything away from him. I'm not going to say anything bad about the guy.