Haley Barbour
Haley Barbour
Haley Reeves Barbouris an American Republican politician who served as the 63rd Governor of Mississippi, from 2004 to 2012. He was given a national spotlight in August 2005 when Mississippi was hit by Hurricane Katrina. He served as Chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1993 to 1997. Prior to holding elective office, Barbour was a lobbyist and co-founder of the Washington lobbying firm BGR Group. which he again joined after his service as governor. Barbour also co-chairs the Bipartisan...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 October 1947
CountryUnited States of America
I can only imagine that this is what Hiroshima looked like 60 years ago.
We don't know how many fatalities there are. The official count is really meaningless.
absolutely and entirely consistent with what I campaigned on.
The most critical thing is what the private sector does, ... Our people need jobs.
There will be more of those. As I've said to you before our goal is 10,000 by the end of the month, and we're working hard at that.
It's no secret that Mississippi's image around the country and around the world is not as good as it ought to be, ... One of the things that helps our image is any time visitors come and see Mississippi and meet Mississippians. This casino industry brings millions of people here. Those people like what they see. They like the people that they meet.
For him to say that is the equivalent of me saying Ronnie Musgrove helped hook our kids on crystal methamphetamine because he didn't oppose a 40-percent cut in the state Bureau of Narcotics drug enforcement budget,
It looks like Hiroshima is what it looks like,
This is the worst natural disaster in the history of this country. Nobody's ever done this before. Every day we try to make a little progress. We are going to make mistakes along the way, realize things we should have done, things we shouldn't have done and things we should have done differently. We are out there in uncharted water.
They're not severely damaged. They're simply not there, ... We would see 10- and 20-block areas where there was nothing. Not one house standing. There were so many places where a home had been and there was nothing left but slab. It looked like it had been swept off with a broom.
Creating a renaissance in this area is what I'm working on for the rest of the time I'm governor,
That's the attorney general's job, and I try to do my job.
And I hate to say it, I think there are going to be more.
We know we've had some loss of life. We really don't know how much. There are credible accounts of 50 to 80 in Harrison County. Those are not confirmed, but they're credible,