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
A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister dog show.
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.
I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit.
If Congress wants to mess with the retirement program, why don't we let them start by changing their retirement program, and not have one, instead of talking about getting rid of Social Security and Medicare that was robbed $700 billion dollars to pay for Obamacare.
Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock.
The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits.
I've said that, that I've felt like as Christians and particularly even as Republicans, we needed to address issues that touched the broader perspective, and that included disease, hunger, poverty, homelessness, the environment.
How could I get up there and say, 'People, we've got to do better,' when I was the poster child for everything that was wrong? I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do.
Christian conservatives care about their families eating. They're concerned about energy independence. They're concerned about functional government.
[America has to import so many workers because] for the last 35 years we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce.
Arkansas is a state where politics is retail.
I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have; it is about those who gave it to us.
I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.
I'm pretty sure there will be duck-hunting in heaven and I can't wait!