to be continued. >> now every candidate will have the opportunity to make a closing statement tonight. each candidate will have 30 seconds and we start with governor perry. >> this is going to be a show me don't tell me election. i think america is just a few good decisions and a leadership change at the top away from the best years we've ever had. i think that the record of the governor of the last 14 years of the 12th largest economy in the world is just the medicine america is looking for. 1.5 million jobs created during the worst economic time this country's ha since the great depression while the rest of the country lost 400,000 jobs. we're talking about a state that moved graduation rates forward from 27th in the nation to second highest -- as a matter of fact if you're hispanic or african-american in texas, you have the number one high school graduation rates in america. americans are looking for