I don't come from a family dynasty, but a working family. I grew up blue-collar, not blue blood. Mike Huckabee More Quotes by Mike Huckabee More Quotes From Mike Huckabee Every single one of us as Americans need to remember that freedom did not come free, as we get on our knees tonight, thank God we live in a country where people are trying to break into, and not a country people are trying to break out of. Mike Huckabee prayercountrypeople When I was in college, we used to take a popcorn popper, because that was the only thing they would let us use in the dorm, and we would fry squirrels in a popcorn popper in the dorm room. Mike Huckabee squirrelspopcorncollege I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do. Mike Huckabee always-believeasksleader Everywhere I go on the campaign trail, I meet voters with a real thirst for a healthy discussion of the issues. Ultimately, people don't care whether an issue comes from the left or the right. What they want to talk about are ideas that lift America up and make us better. It's what I call 'Vertical Politics'. Mike Huckabee realamericaideas [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. Mike Huckabee stupidamericayears Now the question is, now that we are there, what should we do in the best interest of the U.S., not only from a standpoint of the necessity of some stable democracy in the Middle East. Mike Huckabee middle-eastdemocracyhistorical 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. Mike Huckabee governmentdifferentideas No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers. Mike Huckabee statesimportantteacher My working poor parents told me that I could do better. They taught me that I was as good as anybody else. And it never occurred to them to tell me that I could just rest comfortably and wait for good old Uncle Sugar to feed me, lead me and then bleed me. Mike Huckabee unclesparentwaiting Well I'm sure now that the press is going to tell you (Mitt Romney) isn't perfect. Now my friends for the past four years, we've tried the one that the press thought was perfect and that hasn't worked out all that well for us. Mike Huckabee perfectpastyears We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness. Mike Huckabee compassionselfmean The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government. Mike Huckabee governmentwantfacts And they would ask, well, now, are you one of those narrow-minded Baptists who think only Baptists are going to heaven? To which I enjoy replying, now actually I'm more narrow than that, I don't think all the Baptists are going to make it. Mike Huckabee baptistsheaventhinking But I think schools also ought to be fair to all views. Because, frankly, Darwinism is not an established scientific fact. It is a theory of evolution, that's why it's called the theory of evolution. Mike Huckabee viewsschoolthinking Sometimes we talk about why we're importing so many people in our workforce. It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed Supreme Court ruling in 1973. Mike Huckabee abortionpeopleyears I think the important thing is to realize that the establishment of a democracy is sometimes a messy thing and it takes time. Yeah, we've been at it 240 years. Mike Huckabee historicalyearsthinking Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken. Mike Huckabee divorcegrowing-upchildren Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers? Mike Huckabee devilbrotherjesus I think that, that it would be hard for New Hampshire to vote for somebody who was a fundamentalist minister, affable as he is. He does seem to actually want to write, for example, a prohibition against abortion into the Constitution , which Ronald Reagan, for all his talking about it, never tried to do one time. Mike Huckabee writingtalkingthinking It's the best proposal that we ought to have, because it's flatter, it's fairer, it's finite, it's family-friendly. And instead we've had Congress that's spent money like [John] Edwards at a beauty shop. Mike Huckabee family-friendsproposalfriendly
