Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
Michael Dale "Mike" Huckabeeis an American politician, Christian minister, author, musician, and commentator who served as the 44th Governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. He was a candidate in the United States Republican presidential primaries in both 2008 and 2016. He won the 2008 Iowa Republican caucuses and finished second in delegate count and third in both popular vote and number of states won, behind nominee John McCain and Mitt Romney...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth24 August 1955
CityHope, AR
CountryUnited States of America
The United States of America was originally an experiment. But it was an experiment in recognizing God-given individual liberty and creating a government in which we no one is deemed better than another. And in which all of us are equal. Not equal in abilities, but equal in intrinsic worth and value.
We're doing everything in our power to be a good neighbor, ... Our office has been flooded by calls today from people asking what they can do. The best things they can do now is lend a helping hand to those who are in our state to escape the storm, making a donation to the Red Cross disaster relief fund and pray for those who are still trapped.
You're going to have pushback from governors, county executives, mayors, fire chiefs, police chiefs all up and down the emergency-management structure who wonder whether the military will become a super domestic responder and who do they respond to, ... Who determines if a state can't handle a disaster? What if a riot happens in a major city? Does a mayor get a call that the 82nd Airborne has just landed in your city? We've got to talk about this.
If the state surplus is used in part or in whole for this, it will have been used for as valid a need as we've ever had,
Arkansas is a state where politics is retail.
No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.
I'm beginning to think theres more freedom in North korea sometimes than there is in the United States.
The churches are really acting like churches, ... It has been impressive to me that when we thought about moving certain state resources and assets to an area, the local communities often beat us to the punch.
I liked gravy poured on top of a big glob of mashed potatoes, I liked biscuits a lot, and a lot of them. I liked going to the state fair and having a fried Twinkie. They were my choices. They were bad choices.
I've talked with (Mississippi Gov. Haley) Barbour and (Louisiana Gov. Kathleen) Blanco and told them that we are sensitive to rebuilding issues. We are not trying to compete for people, we are here to meet people's needs and help those who feel they do not have anything to go back to,
Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork.
We could potentially be looking at taking an enormous amount of people from Houston, ... We're going to have to prepare in the event. It would tax us if we had to, but we would do it.
The term I'm using to describe it is 'apocalyptic proportions,' ... There is no way to describe the level of damage we have.
Well, for me the pro-life issue has been something I've been very passionate about since the '70s, and I have been very involved in the pro-life community since long before politics.