Rick Perry: “The President's plan gives the Nation's Governors the power and the flexibility to prioritize infrastructure projects.”

Yes this was a black swan event if you will. It was a one of a kind, maybe the only type of event in a hundred years. But we should have been recognizing that we hadn’t weatherized properly our energy supply, energy generation companies…

Washington, when they see a problem, it imposes these top-down mandates to what are uniquely local challenges.

Let's work together. Let's find some solutions to these challenges that vex us, that have been in front of us for a while.

I think this is the least responsible macroeconomic policy that we've had in the last 40 years.