Quotes from Mike Huckabee

The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits.

I find it unnecessary, useless and frankly a bit unnecessary to get into all sorts of debates over President Obama's religion or the authenticity of his birth. I know for some people that it is an obsession. It is not with me.

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.

I treat my wife very differently than I treat my chums and my pals. I wouldn't worry about calling them on Valentine's Day, opening the door for them, or making sure they were OK.

I'm not against gifts that entertain, but I really believe that some of the most valuable gifts that we can give are the things that help us to develop a skill and be entertaining.

I believe most Americans want their next President to remind them of the guy they work with, not the guy who laid them off.

The best way is to say that as a Christian for me the essence of Christian faith is that you treat others as if you wish to be treated.

I think people forget that bipartisanship is really the burden of the victor, not the loser.

I'm from Hope, Arkansas, you may have heard of it. All I'm asking is, give us one more chance.

Ronald Reagan said, 'Trust, but verify.' President Obama is 'trust, but vilify.' He trusts our enemies and vilifies everyone who disagrees with him.

We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools.

As a governor, I've signed virtually every kind of pro-life legislation that we can sign under existing federal law, none of which have been harsh or punitive, but I think they've been important to really point out a pro-life culture in Arkansas. That's, for me, a good thing.

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.

Competition breeds excellence, including in the GOP race.

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

I'm beginning to think theres more freedom in North korea sometimes than there is in the United States.

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

Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.

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.

You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.

The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

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

Arkansas is a state where politics is retail.

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.