Haley Barbour Quotes

#1. The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.

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#2. I would just have a different policy than what he has espoused ... We need to recognize we are not going to deport 12 million people, and ... we shouldn't.

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#3. There's no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re - in an economy like this, we don't need to be raising anybody's taxes.

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#4. Big business has no party and never shall have.

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#5. I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

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#6. We know that acid rain has had no significant environmental effect on trees or forests in the United States ... It is based on popular myths and half-baked theories.

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#7. In politics, purity is the enemy of victory

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#8. I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.

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#9. I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year.

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#10. When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.

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#11. The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision.

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