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
That's why they got chocolate and vanilla, Wolf,
that the federal government understands that it has a major commitment here. It's going to be required to support financially what we do, particularly in areas of public infrastructure.
Eliminating the federal share of CPB funding would free up $400 million this year, ... That is enough money to build 40 elementary schools.
It will be unsafe to return to the coastal area for several days. Be patient. Don't be in a hurry to go back.
It looks like Hiroshima is what it looks like,
I urge all Mississippians to please take this storm seriously. Now is the time to prepare yourself, your family and your friends.
I urge all Mississippians to please take this storm seriously, ... Now is the time to prepare yourself, your family and your friends.
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.
That's the attorney general's job, and I try to do my job.
They are unconfirmed but likely are accurate and likelier to go up when we take in the other counties,
There was a part in there that people could have taken the impression that we in Mississippi need the federal government to come in and take over what we're doing, that we need some kind of czar to tell us how to run Mississippi. We don't need that, ... Larry King Live.
absolutely and entirely consistent with what I campaigned on.
The most critical thing is what the private sector does, ... Our people need jobs.