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" Now, have I ever been tempted to break into a Krispy Kreme doughnut store in the middle of the night? Oh, yeah. God help us if I had a minibar stocked with cheesecake and chicken-fried steak. "
Mike Huckabee
Steak
Us
Now
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" Ronald Reagan said, 'Trust, but verify.' President Obama is 'trust, but vilify.' He trusts our enemies and vilifies everyone who disagrees with him. "
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" A lot of people really like Jeb Bush. I'm one of them. I think Jeb Bush is a great guy. He was a terrific governor in Florida. He's smart. He's articulate. So I can certainly understand why people would him an attractive candidate. "
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" I'm not against anybody. I'm really not. I'm not a hater. I'm not homophobic. I honestly don't care what people do personally in their individual lives. "
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" I grew up in a family in which no male upstream from me had ever finished high school, much less gone to college. But I was taught that even though there was nothing I could do about what was behind me, I could change everything about what was in front of me. My working poor parents told me that I could do better. "
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Family
Parents
" I've never, ever tasted beer. "
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Tasted
Beer
Ever
" 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'm still one who says that we can get rid of the Internal Revenue Service if we would pass the fair tax, which is a tax on consumption rather than a tax on people's income, and move power back where the founders believed it should have been all along. "
Mike Huckabee
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People
Power
" Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved. "
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Money
" The Bible, however, was not created to be amended and altered with each passing culture. "
Mike Huckabee
Culture
Altered
Passing
" 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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Very
Short
Fear
" Christian conservatives care about their families eating. They're concerned about energy independence. They're concerned about functional government. "
Mike Huckabee
Government
Care
Energy
" No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers. "
Mike Huckabee
Teachers
Important
More
" We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools. "
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Violence
Schools
Our
" 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. "
Mike Huckabee
People
Say
Always
" I never, ever, had a person who could come up with the name of a person who could not get a job because an illegal immigrant had stepped in front of them, because it was either a job that person didn't want to do or didn't exist. "
Mike Huckabee
Person
Want
Immigrant
" 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. "
Mike Huckabee
Me
Real
Why
" Marriage should be reinforced, not redefined. "
Mike Huckabee
Reinforced
Should
Marriage
" 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
Banking
Story
Never
" Marriage has historically, as long as there's been human history, meant a man and a woman in a relationship for life. Once we change that definition, then where does it go from there? "
Mike Huckabee
Change
Go
Life
" 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. "
Mike Huckabee
America
Moral
Think
" I'm in this wonderful place of life, where everything I'm doing is something I do because I enjoy it. "
Mike Huckabee
Enjoy
Everything
Doing
" Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing, and it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock. "
Mike Huckabee
Government
Death
Children
" The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government. "
Mike Huckabee
More
Friends
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" I've twice run against women opponents, and it's a very different kind of approach. For those of us who have some chivalry left, there's a level of respect... You treat some things as a special treasure; you treat other things as common. "
Mike Huckabee
Respect
Treasure
Treat
" One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that, if you're on Medicaid, you have unlimited access to health care, at unlimited levels, at no cost. No wonder it's running away. "
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You
Care
Feel
" The problem is we have a Wall Street-to-Washington access of power that has controlled the political climate. The donor class feeds the political class who does the dance that the donor class wants. And the result is federal government keeps getting bigger. "
Mike Huckabee
Dance
Power
Government
" We have deep roots in Arkansas, and I'll always be a Razorback. "
Mike Huckabee
Arkansas
Always
Roots
" Nobody in this country is on Social Security because they made the decision when they were starting work at 14 that they wanted to trust some of their money with the government. The government took it out of their check whether they wanted them to or not. "
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Work
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" I was in Christian broadcasting back in the 1970s. I was director of communications for James Robinson, and I really thought Christian broadcasting was going to be my career. There have been so many twist and turns in my life; of course I haven't been a pastor for almost 22 years, but it was a very important part of my life. "
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Back
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" 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. "
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Start
Security
Retirement