Haley Barbour Quotes

• I’m a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they’ll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They’ll be asking the business community and labor unions.

  Haley Barbour

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  Tags in Lobbyist, Advocating, Lady, Adversary

• 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.

  Haley Barbour

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Smart

• 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.

  Haley Barbour

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  Tags in Governor, Yesterday, Spending

• 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.

  Haley Barbour

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Taxes, Spending

• 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.

  Haley Barbour

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  Tags in Obama, Reaction

• I’m floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

  Haley Barbour

  Topics in Creation, Leadership

  Tags in Political

• 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.

  Haley Barbour

  Tags in Taxes

• The decision is ‘trust fund’ versus ‘no more Medicaid’ – and that shouldn’t be a tough decision.

  Haley Barbour

  Tags in Political, Medicaid, Tough Decision

• My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn’t have had a better situation. I mean, she was the – ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood.

  Haley Barbour

  Tags in Died, Concession

• Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can’t understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.

  Haley Barbour

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Tax, Families

• Big business has no party and never shall have.

  Haley Barbour

  Tags in Political

Haley Barbour (11)

Birth:	22nd October, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Haley Reeves Barbour is an American Republican politician who served as the 62nd Governor of Mississippi, from 2004 to 2012. He was given a national spotlight in August 2005 when Mississippi was hit by Hurricane Katrina. Prior to holding elective office, Barbour was a prominent lobbyist and co-founder of the Washington lobbying firm BGR Group.

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