Political Quotes

“If the gentleman will yield back for a moment, I owed the Army 4 years from an Army scholarship to Texas A&M. From the years of being a Boy Scout, I was good at orienteering, which is the process of taking a map and a compass and finding your way from point A to point B and getting back. Those were things that were important to know when you were in the Army. There is no question that I was quite good at it in the Army because I'd had fantastic training in the Boy Scouts. It was the same way when learning to fire a .22 out on the range as a very young Boy Scout. The first day was the camping, the cooking. It was all about this planet and the things that occupy the planet--this amazing creation that God provided to us, which we learned and studied and had to spend a great deal of time becoming so acquainted with as Boy Scouts. It may seem silly, but when my wife and I were helping with some decorations before a big dance there in Tyler, there were some ladies on a big scissor lift, helping put up heavy 10-, 15-pound decorations to suspend from the ceiling. They had a 50-pound fishing line, but they couldn't get any knot to hold to keep those things up. So they yelled down, Does anybody know of a knot that would hold? Well, I was an Eagle Scout. Of course I do. So they brought the scissor lift down. I got on. I got somebody to come up and help.…”