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 don't have to tell any of you we've been struck a grievous blow,
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,
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.
I will say, sometimes I'm scared, too, ... But we are going to hitch up our britches. We're going to get this done.
we don't need them coming in and running things.
We're preparing for the worst and praying for the best,
The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision.
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.
We've turned a corner. We're well into the cleanup phase now. We're focusing on the future for the state of Mississippi.
Today, I saw reporters cry, ... And mayors. And deputy sheriffs.
What we want to avoid are gigantic trailer parks, for lack of a better word,
We've suffered a grievous blow that we won't recover from for a long while.
There are structures after structures that survived Camille with minor damage that are not there any more.
The fact is the storm overwhelmed all of the system, ... Now, we're little by little trying to get back. We've turned some corners, but we've got a lot of corners left to turn.