Haley Barbour Quotes (75 Quotes)

The federal government is not prioritizing they're throwing everything they've got at it, ... They've even deployed the Navy, the first time in our nation's history it's been used for a natural disaster. They are pushing everything in here possible from thousands of National Guard troops to temporary living quarters to the best scientists and epidemiologists. This will be the biggest relief effort, the largest humanitarian effort in the history of the world.

I can only imagine that this is what Hiroshima looked like 60 years ago.

Even though personally he is not in favor of gaming, he let the House work its will. He deserves credit and no one else,

It will be unsafe to return to the coastal area for several days. Be patient. Don't be in a hurry to go back.

I'm for prosecuting them to the nth degree, ... This to me is like grave robbing, and we just can't tolerate it.

We believe the damage in Mississippi the federal government should help pay for is less than 50 billion, ... It may even be in the 30s.

The commission's role is advisory it has no authority to impose any decision on any subject on anybody, ... inclusive, collaborative, participatory effort that arms the ultimate decision makers.

Some people believe state government is being run so efficiently that no money can be saved. I am not one of those people.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, its top ranks filled by political appointees and its budget hit by deep cuts, seemed unable to grasp the magnitude of the disaster. On the day after the storm, FEMA director Michael Brown met in Biloxi, Miss., with Gov. Haley Barbour, a former Republican National Committee chairman, and told him not to worry, because FEMA had had lots of hurricane practice in Florida. I don't think you've seen anything like this, ... We're talking nuclear devastation.

like there'd been a nuclear weapon set off.

We will rebuild bigger and better than ever. It's going to take some time, and people have to be patient.

Between the beach and the railroad, ... every house is just gone, ... Ninety percent of the structures are totally just gone. Debris (is) knee deep, waist deep, hip deep.

To me looting is about the equivalent of grave robbing, ... We're not going to stand for it.

The politics are just something we'll have to worry about another day,

This is the worst natural disaster in the history of this country. Nobody's ever done this before. Every day we try to make a little progress. We are going to make mistakes along the way, realize things we should have done, things we shouldn't have done and things we should have done differently. We are out there in uncharted water.

This storm is going to have a statewide effect. This is not a coastal storm, ... we are talking about a 30 foot wall of water. Take this seriously.

I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.

Obviously, we regret the base closure commission's decision about Pascagoula, but it's no surprise. As we said when Pascagoula was first put on the list, all the naval vessels at Pascagoula either have been or are scheduled for decommissioning, and it's hard for the defense department to keep a naval base that doesn't have any ships.

the ultimate decision-making would be at the local level.

I'm going to tell you, Mississippi got hit much harder than they did, but what happened in the aftermath it makes your stomach hurt to go miles and miles and miles and the houses are all under water up to the roof,

When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.

In the next month or so, the federal government will act on a variety of issues and the state will have to take further action to do our share.

I applaud the willingness of the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi to take on the task of educating students and parents about the dangers of obesity and how they can develop healthy eating habits, both at home and at school,

Today, I saw reporters cry, ... And mayors. And deputy sheriffs.

I don't want to stake out a position until I at least give the Gaming Commission the courtesy of hearing what their recommendations are,

absolutely and entirely consistent with what I campaigned on.

the federal government has been good partners to us.

Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.

To that end I am proposing an agenda that can be summed up by three words Momentum, UpGrade and Streamline. We must continue our Momentum in job creation and economic growth, UpGrade education in this tough budget period and Streamline that budget back into structural balance.

I urge all Mississippians to please take this storm seriously. Now is the time to prepare yourself, your family and your friends.

I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

While it took a long time, the Legislature has passed the essential parts of the special session agenda, ... We will put those into effect immediately.

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.

Nobody is going to talk about bringing the casinos inland or anything, ... But the question is, should the bottoms, should the floors actually sit on land or pilings instead of out in the water. And because every one, or virtually every one of the casino barges, the casino floors were blown inland and did a lot of damage, the legislature, I think, will do that. That's going to be my recommendation.

Local people have to make the decision, ... The purpose of this commission is not to impose decisions on you. It's to illuminate the choices.

What we want to avoid are gigantic trailer parks, for lack of a better word,

Those who want to play politics (can) do whatever they want to, but the state could not act until we know what the federal government will do. Otherwise, we risk hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.

the presidents major donors from the fossil fuel industry.

I'm pleased that the Legislature saw fit to do that. I know it was a tough decision, but I think they made the right decision,

We know we've had some loss of life. We really don't know how much. There are credible accounts of 50 to 80 in Harrison County. Those are not confirmed, but they're credible,

In the most obvious sense, if there's just one fund, that's simpler for everybody, ... But at the same time, when people are being incredibly generous and trying hard to help, my hat's off to them.

The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision.

I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.

The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.

We Republicans have a wonderful team and we believe in team work, ... Being part of that team will help Mississippi for the next four years.

The speaker showed tremendous leadership and statesmanship,

For those people, we are working very hard that if they don't have insurance or if they don't have coverage, that we can come up with a way to help them financially, help to make them whole,

Creating a renaissance in this area is what I'm working on for the rest of the time I'm governor,

I'm extremely proud of how our National Guard has responded to these hurricane-support efforts. I've seen them in action on the coast, and they're doing everything possible to help protect lives and property throughout the state.

There was a part in there that people could have taken the impression that we in Mississippi need the federal government to come in and take over what we're doing, that we need some kind of czar to tell us how to run Mississippi. We don't need that, ... Larry King Live.