Quotes from Tate Reeves

We have to be willing to make sacrifices.

I'd still rather be in the SEC with no tailgates than in the PAC-12 of Big 10 with no football.

When you are making mandates on individuals to do things like wear masks and you're making mandates on individual business owners to put guidelines in place... they need a little bit of lead time to build up and get that done.

Panic moves you to despair and fear your neighbors.

There is a difference between caution and panic.

Mississippi is a beautiful, powerful state. We have many natural resources: from the fertile soil that produces our crops to the beautiful coastline that draws visitors from around the world. But Mississippi's greatest resource has always been and will always be our people.

The people of Mississippi overwhelmingly voted to keep our flag in 2001. I oppose unilateral action by the governor or the Legislature or any other backroom deal by politicians in Jackson to change it.

Battles in the Legislature can be tough.

I'm not a great patient, and so I don't love shots.

I certainly wouldn't want to be a Republican who votes to significantly increase taxes for certain segments of the general public.

Our state, we do not allow mail-in voting and the reason we don't allow mail-in voting is we don't think that - we think it allows for lots of opportunities for fraud and other things. And I don't think mail-in voting should be allowed in other states around the nation.

We think one of the priorities in Mississippi is not to do what some would suggest, which is to defund the police. Rather, we want to have an initiative to actually fund the police.

Personal responsibility is better than any government order.

If people want to wear a mask into a Walmart or into a restaurant or into any other business - not only should they be allowed to do so; in many instances, they ought to be credited for doing so.

We all know that campaigns are necessarily tough.

No business is non-essential to those who rely on its paycheck for food, for supplies and for shelter.

The state does not run the water system in the city of Jackson. Perhaps we should.

Our commitment to our pro-life values must never waver.

Mississippi is an imperfect state, and I can predict with certainty that I will reflect that imperfection. Mississippians also strive for excellence, and I swear to reflect that as well.

The people of Mississippi can't just go home, shut down their small business, shut down their restaurants, shut down their gyms... and just think that you can come back six weeks from now, flip a switch and everything's gonna be fine. That's not the way the economy works.

We can let the east coast have their ivory towers. We can let the west coast have a generation of gender studies majors. We will take more jobs and higher pay!

Every kid in our state deserves an opportunity for success.

I don't think revenue in any one day, week, month or year should determine long-term tax policy.

I don't know how many ways I can explain this to y'all but I'm opposed to Obamacare expansion in Mississippi because it is not in the best interest of taxpayers.