The relation of landlord and tenant is not an ideal one, but any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.

In a society rigged in favour of landlords over tenants, to rent privately is to be deprived of security.

I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.

The privilege of serving my country is not only rooted in my military service, but also in my personal history. I sit here, as a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army, an immigrant.

I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.

Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in unGodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off you shoulders. The phrase is: It's over.

I just remember Stella Tenant and me dancing in Donatella Versace's bathtub until like four in the morning. It was one of those 'pinch me' moments.

I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed included hand sewing my clothes until I went off to college.