Top 100 Huckabee Quotes
#1. People who are tired of K Street corruption and Wall Street greed are ready for Main Street Values.
Mike Huckabee
#2. Jesus was too smart to ever run for public office ... that's what Jesus would do.
Mike Huckabee
#3. I was a timid little guy when I was a kid. I used humor as a defense; I became the class clown. But deep inside, I felt real vulnerable.
Mike Huckabee
#4. The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers ...
Mike Huckabee
#5. There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.
Mike Huckabee
#6. The government has no business knowing how much money we make and how we made it. It's none of their business. And that's why I believe that manufacturing is critical. If we can't feed ourselves, fuel ourselves and fight for ourselves, we can't be free.
Mike Huckabee
#7. I didn't get into politics because I thought government had a better answer. I got into politics because I knew government didn't have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives.
Mike Huckabee
#8. Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of California and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He forgive us all.
Mike Huckabee
#10. And they would ask, well, now, are you one of those narrow-minded Baptists who think only Baptists are going to heaven? To which I enjoy replying, now actually I'm more narrow than that, I don't think all the Baptists are going to make it.
Mike Huckabee
#11. I say Republicans aren't right all the time. Democrats aren't wrong all the time - now, maybe most of the time, but not all the time.
Mike Huckabee
#12. That's the fundamental question. Do we have a check and balance system? Do we have three equal branches or do we have one supreme branch, not just the Supreme Court? That's the fundamental question.
Mike Huckabee
#13. Now the question is, now that we are there, what should we do in the best interest of the U.S., not only from a standpoint of the necessity of some stable democracy in the Middle East ...
Mike Huckabee
#14. There's never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived.
Mike Huckabee
#15. It's a matter of balance of power. If the Supreme Court could just make a ruling and everybody has to bow down and fall on their faces and worship that law, it isn't a law because it hasn't been yet passed.
Mike Huckabee
#16. Prayer reminds me it's not just about me. It's about all the people with whom I share this planet, and all of whom God has created, and all of whom he cares just as much about as he cares about me.
Mike Huckabee
#17. A country needs to be able to feed itself, fuel itself, and fight for itself.
Mike Huckabee
#18. Outlaw all abortions; err on the side of life.
Mike Huckabee
#19. I never, ever, had a person who could come up with the name of a person who could not get a job because an illegal immigrant had stepped in front of them, because it was either a job that person didn't want to do or didn't exist.
Mike Huckabee
#20. I'm not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.
Mike Huckabee
#21. I find it unnecessary, useless and frankly a bit unnecessary to get into all sorts of debates over President Obama's religion or the authenticity of his birth. I know for some people that it is an obsession. It is not with me.
Mike Huckabee
#22. Sometimes we talk about why we're importing so many people in our workforce. It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed Supreme Court ruling in 1973.
Mike Huckabee
#23. I believe Donald Trump would be better for America than Barack Obama, because he understands business. Donald Trump has taken a pro- life position. He believes that we're getting shanghaied by China.
Mike Huckabee
#24. I hurt my knee, and that messed up my running, and boy did that ever just have a cascade effect. I've gained about thirty pounds that my doctors have screamed at me about. I've got to get that off, and I know that.
Mike Huckabee
#25. I think America is in trouble, but it's not beyond repair. But it's going to take leadership who sees the greatness of this country and who believes that, once again, we can be one nation under God.
Mike Huckabee
#26. A lot of people really like Jeb Bush. I'm one of them. I think Jeb Bush is a great guy. He was a terrific governor in Florida. He's smart. He's articulate. So I can certainly understand why people would him an attractive candidate.
Mike Huckabee
#28. I'm from Hope, Arkansas, you may have heard of it. All I'm asking is, give us one more chance.
Mike Huckabee
#29. Every single one of us as Americans need to remember that freedom did not come free, as we get on our knees tonight, thank God we live in a country where people are trying to break into, and not a country people are trying to break out of.
Mike Huckabee
#30. Jesus said, 'Blessed are the peacemakers.' And I think a lot of people don't understand that there's a difference between a peace lover and a peacemaker. Everybody loves peace, but wearing jewelry around your neck and saying 'I love peace' doesn't bring it.
Mike Huckabee
#31. We ask why there's violence in our school but we've systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools have become such a place of carnage? Because we've made it a place where we don't want to talk about eternity, life, what responsibility means, accountability,
Mike Huckabee
#32. George Bush didn't campaign on, 'If you elect me, I'm going to be a great president to confront terrorism and launch a war in the Middle East' because nobody was thinking about it in the year 2000. But it became the defining issue of his presidency.
Mike Huckabee
#33. Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anybody else can do.
Mike Huckabee
#34. I believe most Americans want their next President to remind them of the guy they work with, not the guy who laid them off.
Mike Huckabee
#35. The problem is we have a Wall Street-to-Washington access of power that has controlled the political climate. The donor class feeds the political class who does the dance that the donor class wants. And the result is federal government keeps getting bigger.
Mike Huckabee
#36. So when we're really addressing issues like poverty, you can't do that without addressing the real driver of some of those, which is stable homes, families. So that's why to me those issues are important. They're not frivolous. They're critical economic issues.
Mike Huckabee
#37. Kenneth Copeland is a friend, innocent until proven guilty.
Mike Huckabee
#38. Regardless of Bill Clinton's politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency - twice. Don't take that away from him, because then you take it away from every other kid in America sitting out there in a school bus with a big dream.
Mike Huckabee
#39. Cal thought: A new player. Terrific. Maybe William Shatner's in here, too. Also Mike Huckabee . . . Kim Kardashian . . . the guy who plays Opie on Sons of Anarchy and the entire cast of The Walking Dead.
Stephen King
#40. We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness.
Mike Huckabee
#41. It's more likely I'll dye my hair green, get a bunch of tattoos and go on tour with Amy Winehouse.
Mike Huckabee
#42. John McCain will follow the fanatics to their caves in Pakistan or to the gates of hell. What Obama wants to do is give them a place setting at the table.
Mike Huckabee
#43. Don't let the culture influence your message, let your message influence the culture.
Mike Huckabee
#44. Government shouldn't try to dictate what art looks like or what it portrays. Last thing we want is government screwing it up, which is what they would do.
Mike Huckabee
#45. You don't just give the executive branch unlimited resources, unlimited power. Our founders were very concerned about too much power being invested in any one, in any branch. The balance of power is fundamental to our system.
Mike Huckabee
#46. One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that, if you're on Medicaid, you have unlimited access to health care, at unlimited levels, at no cost. No wonder it's running away.
Mike Huckabee
#47. I'm one of the strongest advocates for the arts you'll ever find!
Mike Huckabee
#48. I think that whether someone is a Christian or not, the idea that a human life has dignity and intrinsic worth should be clear enough.
Mike Huckabee
#49. Mike Huckabee says the answer to our problems is to cure all diseases. I guess no one's thought of that before.
Ted Cruz
#50. Opposing Bush's troop surge is a dangerous position.
Mike Huckabee
#51. I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit.
Mike Huckabee
#52. I think people forget that bipartisanship is really the burden of the victor, not the loser.
Mike Huckabee
#53. Wouldn't propose new taxes, but won't pledge against taxes.
Mike Huckabee
#54. The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance.
Mike Huckabee
#55. A 100 years from now the consequences for standing for Jesus will be greater than the consequences of not standing for Jesus today.
Mike Huckabee
#56. Terrorists cut people's heads off and that's what they do in the Planned Parenthood clinics.
Mike Huckabee
#57. No one heard about Bill Clinton on his first trip to New Hampshire. I showed Mike Huckabee around the state years before he ran, and no one knew him then, either.
Bob Ehrlich
#58. As a governor, I've signed virtually every kind of pro-life legislation that we can sign under existing federal law, none of which have been harsh or punitive, but I think they've been important to really point out a pro-life culture in Arkansas. That's, for me, a good thing.
Mike Huckabee
#59. The president can't tell you what we got. I'll tell you what the world got. The world has a burgeoning nuclear power that didn't, as the Soviets, say "we might defend ourselves in a war."
Mike Huckabee
#60. When someone points a gun at your head and loads it, by God, you ought to take them seriously.
Mike Huckabee
#61. A wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ.
Mike Huckabee
#62. Christian conservatives care about their families eating. They're concerned about energy independence. They're concerned about functional government.
Mike Huckabee
#63. It doesn't embarrass me one bit to let you know that I believe Adam and Eve were real people.
Mike Huckabee
#64. Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?
Mike Huckabee
#65. I've had the privilege of working with Bono for the past few years in the One Campaign to fight AIDS and hunger and disease around the world. Bono is an Irishman and a great humanitarian. And I remember him telling me of his admiration for America.
Mike Huckabee
#66. Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith.
Mike Huckabee
#67. For me, running for office is never about trying to destroy an opponent, be it Democratic or Republican. It really ought to be about how can we solve some problems that we're facing.
Mike Huckabee
#68. Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.
Mike Huckabee
#69. No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.
Mike Huckabee
#70. You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.
Mike Huckabee
#71. He seems like a nice charming guy. [Mike Huckabee] doesn't believe in evolution and has some nutty views about what it is we should do about ending violence in our inner city - we should make sure all of our young people are armed. Republicans scare me.
Elizabeth Edwards
#72. True faith is forged in the furnace, not the showroom.
Mike Huckabee
#73. I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.
Gail Collins
#74. Libido is a normal part of being human. Nothing scandalous about it. But without it, in either women or men, would there be a demand for birth control?
Mike Huckabee
#75. It will be like having an extreme close-up in high definition to examine each freckle, while failing to notice whether the person is even wearing pants.
Mike Huckabee
#76. I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have; it is about those who gave it to us.
Mike Huckabee
#77. I'm beginning to think theres more freedom in North korea sometimes than there is in the United States.
Mike Huckabee
#78. Families out there know that if they get in trouble and they've spent up a bunch of money and they've borrowed and they are up to hock to their necks, the thing they've got to do is start paying off what they owe and cut back their spending.
Mike Huckabee
#79. It's time that we recognize the Supreme Court is not the supreme being, and we change the policy to be pro-life and protect children instead of rip up their body parts and sell them like they're parts to a Buick.
Mike Huckabee
#80. I've twice run against women opponents, and it's a very different kind of approach. For those of us who have some chivalry left, there's a level of respect ... You treat some things as a special treasure; you treat other things as common.
Mike Huckabee
#81. We don't have a crime problem, a gun problem or even a violence problem. What we have is a sin problem. And since we've ordered god out of our schools, and communities, the military and public conversations, you know we really shouldn't act so surprised ... when all hell breaks loose,
Mike Huckabee
#83. There's a lot of us who do not accept the culture of the bubbles.
Mike Huckabee
#84. I've said that, that I've felt like as Christians and particularly even as Republicans, we needed to address issues that touched the broader perspective, and that included disease, hunger, poverty, homelessness, the environment.
Mike Huckabee
#85. All of my children are ideologically and politically in sync with me, they all have authentic Christian faith. It's something I'm very grateful for.
Mike Huckabee
#86. The real preparation for [Christ's] return is not to act like we know it's coming right now and do something different. It's to do what we should have been doing all along.
Mike Huckabee
#87. It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.
Mike Huckabee
#88. But I think schools also ought to be fair to all views. Because, frankly, Darwinism is not an established scientific fact. It is a theory of evolution, that's why it's called the theory of evolution.
Mike Huckabee
#89. People of faith feel responsible for God's world.
Mike Huckabee
#90. One of the reasons that Social Security is in so much trouble is that the only funding stream comes from people who get a wage. The people who get wages is declining dramatically. Most of the income in this country is made by people at the top who get dividends and - and capital gains.
Mike Huckabee
#91. I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and the copy of his admission records to show whether he got any loans as a foreign student. When he releases that, talk to me about my tax returns.
Mike Huckabee
#93. A healthier, less impoverished planet is good for all of us. From an economic standpoint, it allows people to contribute more to the marketplace and lead productive lives. U.S. foreign assistance opens new markets to U.S. goods and services and creates new trading partners and allies.
Mike Huckabee
#94. People have foolishly mistaken equality for sameness. Equality of the genders means that both have equal value and worth, and one is not better than the other. But it doesn't mean we're all exactly the same. And many of us who still believe in gender separation say, 'Vive la difference!
Mike Huckabee
#95. Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.
Matt Taibbi
#96. If consumers make better choices, the marketplace will change.
Mike Huckabee
#97. Fighting for ourselves means manufacturing our own weapons of self-defense.
Mike Huckabee
#98. We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools.
Mike Huckabee
#99. I think a lot of people in America do not understand that the basis of true liberty can't happen without an objective moral standard by which we live our lives.
Mike Huckabee
#100. People need to remember that to balance the federal budget off the backs of the poorest people in the country is simply unacceptable. You don't pull feeding tubes from people. You don't pull the wheelchair out from under the child with muscular dystrophy.
Mike Huckabee
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