Governor Abbott Quotes

In 2016, the Republican Party of Texas held its state convention. In an effort spearheaded by the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM), a proposal that would have added a plank to the official platform calling for an up-or-down vote on Texas leaving the Union was considered. The proposal passed the Temporary Platform Committee by a two-thirds majority, throwing Party Chairman Tom Mechler and the staff of Governor Greg Abbott into an absolute panic. Defying all precedent, Mechler and the governor’s agents lobbied to replace members of the Temporary Platform Committee with members who were opposed to the plank before the committee became the Permanent Platform Committee. The unprecedented nature of the response from the political establishment cannot be overstated. One convention delegate, a longtime Republican activist said, “I’ve been coming to conventions for 30 years and I have never seen this.” In

With more than a million Texans licensed to carry handguns, the state is actually far behind Florida, with 1.7 million. "I'm EMBARRASSED," Governor Greg Abbott tweeted in 2015; "Texas #2 in nation for new gun purchases, behind CALIFORNIA. Let's pick up the pace Texans. @NRA

Principles of the Mohammedan faith. 1. In believing in one God, the creator of all things, and the supreme ruler and governor of the universe. 2. In giving one fortieth part of their yearly income or gains to the poor. 3. In praying to God five times every day. 4. In setting apart one month in each year for fasting. 5. In making a pilgrimage to the temple in Mecca, there to worship God. Genghis Khan's opinion. Genghis Khan told them that he believed himself in the first of these articles, and he approved of the three succeeding ones. It was very well, he said, to give one fortieth of one's income to the poor, and to pray to God five times a day, and to set apart a month in the year for a fast. But as to the last article, he could not but dissent from it entirely, for the whole world was God's house, and it was ridiculous, he said, to imagine that one place could really be any more fitting than another as a place for worshiping him.