Chris Bell
Chris Bell
Robert Christopher "Chris" Bellis an American politician, attorney, and former journalist. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and South Texas College of Law. Bell served five years on the Houston City Council from 1997 to 2001, followed by one term in the United States House of Representatives from Texas' 25th Congressional District in Houston from 2003 to 2005. He was then the Democratic nominee in the 2006 election for the office of Governor of Texas,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth23 November 1959
CountryUnited States of America
We're going to have to get past our defeatist attitude if we're going to win again.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Don't store unnecessary data, keep an eye on what's happening, and don't take unnecessary risks.
It's becoming increasingly obvious that Rick Perry just doesn't get it, that he doesn't understand that budgets are moral documents, that there are human costs attached to fiscal decisions,
It just makes sense, and frankly I'm surprised that they haven't done something about that one already,
I'm running because the State of Texas finds itself in last place in too many categories.
I want an across-the-board pay raise with a dependable funding source.
It's a very strange strategy when somebody offers you an olive branch and you use it to stick him in the eyeball,
I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.
A revenue-neutral proposal is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
It was doing sort of a suburban/urban (mix). It didn't know what it wanted to be before.
Rick Perry is taking his ethics lessons from Tom DeLay.
I like the way that shakes out. I like the numbers.
I want to see how the Arizona plan works out, utilizing the National Guard. It would be more expensive for the state of Texas, ... but if it's successful there, I think we're going to have to perhaps consider that type of plan.
We've been handed an incredible opportunity and the trick will be getting people to recognize that fact.