"Every billion dollars we spend on highway construction results in 47,500 jobs. But the fact is the average American is sitting in traffic 38 hours a year."
Mike Huckabee on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in a Republican debate in Simi Valley, Calif. >>Details
Says he was the only Republican candidate at a prior debate who said lower-income workers were being hurt by the economy.
Mike Huckabee on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in a debate in Boca Raton. >>Details
Supported in-state tuition in Arkansas for illegal immigrants "if you'd sat in our schools from the time you're 5 or 6 years old and you had become an A-plus student," among other things.
Mike Huckabee on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 in a debate in St. Petersburg >>Details
"The reality is, with a $2 trillion-a-year health care budget, we're spending more on health care, nearly 17 percent of our gross domestic product, versus 3.8 percent of GDP on the entire military budget."
Mike Huckabee on Sunday, September 2nd, 2007 in >>Details
"I would love to see us have in this country what I helped lead in Arkansas...Amendment 65 (which) says that we believe life begins at conception, and that we ought to do everything in the world possible to protect it until its natural conclusion."
Mike Huckabee on Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 in a debate in Durham, N.H. >>Details
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