W. Bryan Hubbard

50-year-old me would look right back and say, you happened to me.

You happened to me.

your youthful sense of certainty, your belief that you had it all figured out, your belief that you had no further greater evolution to achieve, sir.

You and your insolence of youth, you happened to me.

One of the things that I have so enjoyed learning about Governor Perry as he and I have built relationship, the first time I really started following him was when he ran for president in 2012.

And I believe that

Had he not had that back surgery, we would not have had a second Obama term.

He would have won that race, and I think he would have won it handily.

It's been remarkable to listen to this gentleman who has been so firmly identified with the conservative wing of the Republican Party be so willing to be curious and to have that human value of curiosity and a willingness to hear and a willingness to know and a willingness to entertain that perhaps everything that he had been taught about this particular subject was not correct.

curiosity is a prime human value.

And if you allow dogma to shut off your curiosity, you have hobbled yourself.

And I think it was Muhammad Ali who said, if a 50-year-old man thinks the exact same way as a 20-year-old man, as he did when he was 20, he's wasted 30 years of his life.

And that is dead on right.

I love to get off the beaten path.

My favorite cities in America are those that you can go to and not feel like you're in the country.

Miami is fabulous.

It's a wild place.

You should have a passport to go to Miami.

It is fabulous.

And I remember the first time I went to New York City one time when I was about five years old.