Overheard in Texas:

Rick Perry

“All of this talk about paying women equally in Texas is just nonsense. Why … it’s just designed to distract people from looking at the real issues, like … like …, well you know.”

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R)

Overheard at CPAC:

Rick Perry

“It’s time for a little rebellion on the battlefield of ideas. It’s time for the party of no ideas to be come to forth and consider the idea of a battlefield and rebel against it. Yes.”

Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas), speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference

Overheard in Texas:

Rick Perry

“Our new anti-women law placing unneeded regulation on abortion clinics has shuttered 24 out of 44 abortion providers in our state, largely in rural areas, and another 14 will have to close by September. Isn’t it great? Here in Texas, when you decide to have sex, you have officially made the ‘choice’ to live with any results. For as much as we love their vaginas, we really do hate women in Texas—especially pregnant ones who aren’t married. And if they’re poor as well? Hell, just send them back to Mexico where they came from!”

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R)

Overheard in Texas:

Rick Perry

“We will not back down! We do not want same sex marriage here in Texas! Marriage is between one man and one second-class citizen and that’s all it will ever be here in the Lone Star State!”

Gov. Rick Perry (R) of Texas, which this week joined Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Utah as states where bans on same-sex marriages have been struck down by federal courts that say the bans are unconstitutional.

Overheard on CNN:

Rick Perry

"The minimum wage is NOT the government's business. If we want our people to live in poverty as slaves here in Texas—and make no mistake, that is exactly what we want—Big Government needs to butt out."

Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas), a likely 2016 GOP presidential candidate

Overheard on CNN:

Rick Perry

“I have a problem with calling the president a ‘subhuman mongrel,’ mainly because those words are very hard for me to say—lots of syllables, you know. I wouldn’t have used those words but it doesn’t offend me that Ted Nugent said it. What the fuck do I care? If Ted thinks it is true, who am I to question it? I’m not going to say he was wrong to do it, so stop trying to make me.”

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), responding to questions from CNN host Wolf Blitzer. Perry is a potential 2016 presidential candidate.