Mike Huckabee Quotes

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Mike Huckabee

Profession : Politician

Birth : August 24, 1955

If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.

Mike Huckabee

The Bible, however, was not created to be amended and altered with each passing culture.

Mike Huckabee

I continue to do something I've done since I was 18, and that is read a chapter of Proverbs every day as part of my daily devotion. I still maintain that.

Mike Huckabee

I have a little pocket Bible that I have with me all the time in my briefcase, and so usually in the mornings, sometimes on the campaign bus or plane, I always try to catch some time to do that regularly.

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I support workplace clean air. But a federal ban on smoking would mean that you couldn't smoke in your own home. I don't care what people do in their home.

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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.

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I think people forget that bipartisanship is really the burden of the victor, not the loser.

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I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.'

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Arkansas is a state where politics is retail.

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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.

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I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit.

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If consumers make better choices, the marketplace will change.

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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.

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I love my kids; I'm very close to all three of them.

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Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

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Christian conservatives care about their families eating. They're concerned about energy independence. They're concerned about functional government.

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Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.

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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.

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My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.

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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.

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