Mike Huckabee Quotes & Sayings

The Bible, however, was not created to be amended and altered with each passing culture. — Mike Huckabee

Jesus and the devil are brothers — Mike Huckabee

Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of California and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He forgive us all. — Mike Huckabee

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. — Mike Huckabee

The biggest gap there is in America is not economic; the gap is spiritual and cultural. — Mike Huckabee

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

It's time for the government to scale back, not for people of faith to scale back! — Mike Huckabee

It has to do with the incredibly dangerous place that this world is gonna be as a result of a deal in which we got nothing.We didn't even get four hostages out. We got nothing, and Iran gets everything they want. — Mike Huckabee

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

It's more likely I'll dye my hair green, get a bunch of tattoos and go on tour with Amy Winehouse. — Mike Huckabee

I've never, ever tasted beer. — Mike Huckabee

I think that I would have made a fine president. But it really came down for me to a very personal, a very intimate and a spiritual decision. I don't rule anything out for the long-term future. — Mike Huckabee

For Democrats to reduce women to beggars for cheap government-funded birth control is demeaning to the women that I know who are far more complicated than their libido and the management of their reproductive system. — Mike Huckabee

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor. — Mike Huckabee

Lets all be reminded, 60 million Americans are on Social Security, 60 million. A third of those people depend on 90% of their income from Social Security. 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. — Mike Huckabee

I've had the privilege of working with Bono for the past few years in the One Campaign to fight AIDS and hunger and disease around the world. Bono is an Irishman and a great humanitarian. And I remember him telling me of his admiration for America. — Mike Huckabee

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart. — Mike Huckabee

First governor in Arkansas history to ever lower taxes. — Mike Huckabee

Libido is a normal part of being human. Nothing scandalous about it. But without it, in either women or men, would there be a demand for birth control? — Mike Huckabee

It's a matter of balance of power. If the Supreme Court could just make a ruling and everybody has to bow down and fall on their faces and worship that law, it isn't a law because it hasn't been yet passed. — Mike Huckabee

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

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached. — Mike Huckabee

The more that all of the external things began to materialize, the less the internal things began to crystallize. — Mike Huckabee

Sometimes, people mistake fire in the belly for too much pepperoni pizza the night before. They make a great speech and people come up to them and tell them, "You could be president." And the next thing you know, they're running, not because they really ought to or have any shot at doing it, but because they have, a handful of people that tell them they are looking at the next president. — Mike Huckabee

Wouldn't propose new taxes, but won't pledge against taxes. — Mike Huckabee

A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister dog show. — Mike Huckabee

Fighting for ourselves means manufacturing our own weapons of self-defense. — Mike Huckabee

Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith. — Mike Huckabee

That's the fundamental question. Do we have a check and balance system? Do we have three equal branches or do we have one supreme branch, not just the Supreme Court? That's the fundamental question. — Mike Huckabee

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. — Mike Huckabee

One of the things about politics, when you're actually there, you realize, you're on a high wire and there is no net under you. On any given day, your campaign can implode for something that happens inadvertently or even intentionally. — Mike Huckabee

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

If anybody wants to believe they're the descendants of a primate, they're welcome to do it. — Mike Huckabee

American Psalms challenges Christian patriots to put aside personal agendas, prejudices and partisanship, and pray for our leaders as God commands. — Mike Huckabee

I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit. — Mike Huckabee

My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community. — Mike Huckabee

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. — Mike Huckabee

You learn to handle the big moments in life by practicing on the little ones. — Mike Huckabee

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. — Mike Huckabee

If the government can't track illegals, then let's outsource the job to UPS or FedEx. — Mike Huckabee

The notion that the Supreme Court comes up with the ruling and that automatically subjects the two other branches to following it defies everything there is about the three equal branches of government. The Supreme Court is not the supreme branch. And for God's sake, it isn't the Supreme Being. It is the Supreme Court. — Mike Huckabee

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

What the Iranians have said is, "we will wipe Israel off the face of the map, and we will bring death to America." When someone points a gun at your head and loads it, by God, you ought to take them seriously, and we need to take that seriously. — Mike Huckabee

There's never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived. — Mike Huckabee

Respect gay couples but no gay adoptions. — Mike Huckabee

We need to be clear in calling out evil for what it is. When people will behead a child, and when people will leave people starving on top of a mountain without food or water - 40,000 of them - I don't care what religion it is: It's evil. — Mike Huckabee

A political race today, even a primary, is $150 million. The whole political system has become obscene in terms of the absurd amount of money that is required to compete. Just put it on ESPN and call it a sporting event. — Mike Huckabee

Hi, I'm Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, wanting to say "Congratulations, Canada, on preserving your national igloo". — Mike Huckabee

Barack Obama seems intent on enrolling more people on food stamps. Mitt Romney's focus is going to be on generating more jobs that will make food-stamps unnecessary for them. — Mike Huckabee

[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

When someone points a gun at your head and loads it, by God, you ought to take them seriously. — Mike Huckabee

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. — Mike Huckabee

The United States of America was originally an experiment. But it was an experiment in recognizing God-given individual liberty and creating a government in which we no one is deemed better than another. And in which all of us are equal. Not equal in abilities, but equal in intrinsic worth and value. — Mike Huckabee

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. — Mike Huckabee

Vertical lift-up politics rather than horizontal left-right. — Mike Huckabee

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

Arkansas is a state where politics is retail. — Mike Huckabee

The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance. — Mike Huckabee

No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers. — Mike Huckabee

It will be like having an extreme close-up in high definition to examine each freckle, while failing to notice whether the person is even wearing pants. — Mike Huckabee

I didn't get into politics because I thought government had a better answer. I got into politics because I knew government didn't have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives. — Mike Huckabee

I've always suggested if you can't stand the sight of your own blood, don't run for office. — Mike Huckabee

Stop illegal immigration. Stop these trade deals that are taking jobs from Americans. Build an economy that works for the people at the bottom, not just the ones at the top. — Mike Huckabee

We've had a Congress that's spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop. — Mike Huckabee

When people are breaking the law, they don't get an invitation to the White House. They ought to be getting an invitation to the big house ... This is just an anathema to everything that the civil rights movement was truly all about and what it accomplished. — Mike Huckabee

I say Republicans aren't right all the time. Democrats aren't wrong all the time - now, maybe most of the time, but not all the time. — Mike Huckabee

I do believe God has given me an incredible opportunity and a platform in a secular environment but still to take a stand for Christ and being a blessing to believers. — Mike Huckabee

I'm pretty sure there will be duck-hunting in heaven and I can't wait! — Mike Huckabee

I have great respect for people who live out their beliefs. For example, Ed Begley Jr. is an environmentalist, but he really lives his lives, and is he very prudent in the way he lives. He's cautious. He's not like an Al Gore that flies around in a private jet and burns 20,000 gallons a day on his jet. — Mike Huckabee

I'm in this wonderful place of life, where everything I'm doing is something I do because I enjoy it. — Mike Huckabee

If the Democrats want to insult women by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it. — Mike Huckabee

Presidents Lincoln, Jefferson, Jackson, presidents have understood that the Supreme Court cannot make a law. They cannot make it. The legislature has to make it, the executive branch has to sign it and enforce it. — Mike Huckabee

Ok to ban smoking from workplaces, but not to ban smoking. — Mike Huckabee

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

I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that's what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards. — Mike Huckabee

We had so many different presidents, including Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln - there were other founders like Hamilton, Adams - who made it very clear that the courts can't make a law. The Constitution is expressly clear that that's a power reserved to Congress. — Mike Huckabee

However, what Article VI [of the U.S. Constitution] does not do, and was never intended to do, is deny me the right to say, as loudly as I may choose, that I will on no account vote for a smirking hick like Mike Huckabee, who is an unusually stupid primate but who does not have the elementary intelligence to recognize the fact that this is what he is. — Mike Huckabee

All of my children are ideologically and politically in sync with me, they all have authentic Christian faith. It's something I'm very grateful for. — Mike Huckabee

People of faith feel responsible for God's world. — Mike Huckabee

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. — Mike Huckabee

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

I respect the courts, but the Supreme Court is only that
the supreme of the courts. It is not the supreme being. It cannot overrule God, when it comes to prayer, when it comes to life, and when it comes to the sanctity of marriage, the court cannot change what God has created. — Mike Huckabee

It's time that we recognize the Supreme Court is not the supreme being, and we change the policy to be pro-life and protect children instead of rip up their body parts and sell them like they're parts to a Buick. — Mike Huckabee

People have foolishly mistaken equality for sameness. Equality of the genders means that both have equal value and worth, and one is not better than the other. But it doesn't mean we're all exactly the same. And many of us who still believe in gender separation say, 'Vive la difference! — Mike Huckabee

Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anybody else can do. — Mike Huckabee

I have often been characterized by one sound bite, and people say, 'That is the whole of Mike Huckabee, because we have him on this off-the-cuff moment.' — Mike Huckabee

America's cultural table is set by the people living in the three bubbles - New York Washington D.C. and Hollywood. — Mike Huckabee

Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock. — Mike Huckabee

I'm not a reckless person, in the sense that I wouldn't do something that's reckless or dangerous, because I'm a pretty careful person. For example, I don't snow ski. I did it once, and I promised God I'd never do it again if I lived through it. — Mike Huckabee

The Democrats say we ought to give Barack Obama credit for trying. That sounds like the nonsense of giving every kid a trophy for showing up. Friends, we're talking about leading the country, not playing on a third-grade soccer team! I realize this is the man who got a Nobel Peace Prize for what he would potentially do, but in the real world, you get the prize for producing something, not just promising it. — Mike Huckabee

To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly. — Mike Huckabee

True faith is forged in the furnace, not the showroom. — Mike Huckabee

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved. — Mike Huckabee

The fair (ph) transforms the process by which we fund Social Security and Medicare because the money paid in consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers, all the people that are freeloading off the system now. — Mike Huckabee

This room is a testimony that there are men who want to be a man for God and a man of God. — Mike Huckabee

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

It seems like we're spending billions of dollars on whiz-bang technology and not enough money on human resources, which really is proven to be the most effective way of stopping terrorism. — Mike Huckabee

Competition breeds excellence, including in the GOP race. — Mike Huckabee

We have deep roots in Arkansas, and I'll always be a Razorback. — Mike Huckabee

The government has no business knowing how much money we make and how we made it. It's none of their business. And that's why I believe that manufacturing is critical. If we can't feed ourselves, fuel ourselves and fight for ourselves, we can't be free. — Mike Huckabee