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Haley Barbour Biography

Haley Reeves Barbour (born October 22, 1947) is an American politician, lobbyist, author and member of the Republican Party 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 Policy Center's Immigration Task Force.

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Big business has no party and never shall have.

Big, Big Business, Bigs, Business, Party

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.

Country, Critical, Smart, Thinking, Weapons, World

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

Creation, House, Jobs, Mississippians, Turn

My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood.

Booster, Brother, Concession, Football, Mother, School

After [Donald] Trump has won in New Hampshire and South Carolina, Republicans are crazy and are about to blow the White House if we don`t rally to stop him.

Blow, Crazy, Donald, Republicans, White

I would just have a different policy than what he has espoused. . . We need to recognize we are not going to deport 12 million people, and. . . we shouldn't.

Deport, Different, Espoused, Needs, People

We know that acid rain has had no significant environmental effect on trees or forests in the United States. . . It is based on popular myths and half-baked theories.

Effect, Environmental, Popular, Rain, Tree, United

I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year.

Billions, Cutting, Federal, Government, Governor, Years

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.

Administration, Congress, Period, Reaction, Running, Taken

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.

Careers, Community, Gets, Guy, Lobbyist, United

There have been more than 30,000 oil wells drilled in the Gulf of Mexico in the last 50 years. This is the first time something like this has ever happened [BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill], and we need to get to the bottom of it, find out what happened, make sure it doesn't happen again. But I think it is very reasonable to continue to drill.

Continue, Gulf, Oil, Thinking, Years

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.

Cost, Hurt, Jobs, Majority, Tax, Understand

In politics, purity is the enemy of victory.

Enemy, Law Enforcement, Politics, Victory