Rick Perry: ‘Executive Experience Does Matter and It Matters a Lot’

PERRY: "Well, I think anybody can apply. But I think the facts are that governors do have that executive experience, particularly someone with 14 years of that executive experience that no one gave me a handbook that said here is how you handle Katrina and Rita and the hurricanes, nobody said here’s how you handle ebola, here’s how you handle a crisis on your border. That only comes with that executive experience. And that’s what I’m asking Americans to take a look at. Here is how we run the 12th largest economy in the world. Here’s the results we’ve had, 1.5 million jobs created from ‘07 through 2014. Don’t you think those policies, that focus on economics is what we need at the White House at this particular point in time? And obviously the preparation on foreign policy that I’ve done and dealing with those issues is also I think selling point that Americans are going to look at and say that executive experience does matter and it matters a lot."