Quotes from Tate Reeves

If you are being held back by some unnecessary government rule or process, we will provide an easy way for you to let us know. And whenever we can take action, we will do so quickly.

Panic moves you to hoard essentials and prevent others from getting what they need.

Big government intervention creates as many problems as it solves - that was the lesson of Obamacare.

I fully support everyone's individual right to protest their government.

We've been tested by every force of nature, disease, and human frailty.

I'm committed to spending more money on public education.

When we talk about public education, we don't worry about a district. We don't focus on an individual school or a building when we talk about education. We talk about kids and what's best for kids. It doesn't matter what's best for the adults; what matters is what's best for the individual kids.

There's public health risks to doing large political gatherings, but in this country - and we do still live in America - we protect the right to free speech and we protect the right to political discourse and political events.

There are some people in our state who may choose a different public school because they have the private means to move from one district to the other. But why should we limit choice just to those who can financially afford it?

I am committed to elevating our public schools.

If Mississippians ever decide we should change our flag, and at some point they might, it should only be done by a vote of the people.

If you live in Tishomingo County and there's a statewide mask mandate you can't help but say, 'Well, that's probably for those folks in Hancock County.' If you put a statewide mandate, the folks in Hancock County are going to say, 'That's for the folks up in Tishomingo County, they can't possibly be talking about me.'

Eliminating the franchise tax is really about economic growth on Main Street.

We think that - that our elections process, which has been in place for many, many years, is a - ensures that we have a fair process in which we have the opportunity to limit fraud. We still have fraudulent claims every single election.

I want to compete with the best - Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas. Because I know that not only can we compete, I know that we can win.

The reason I'm opposed to raising the gas tax is I believe it would hurt working Mississippi families more so than anybody else in the state.

We, as a state, need to think big. What can we do to make a splash? What can we to do to say to the world, 'Not only do we want you to invest capital here, we want you to move here?'

A government program helps for a month, but a good-paying career helps a family for generations.

The great thing about living in America is anybody can run for anything they want to run for. And I think that's a great thing.

Guidelines are better than lockdowns.

I am not threatening, I am promising the full force of our state will be ready and willing to defend our communities.

Let's eliminate the income tax, which is one huge speed bump to long-term economic growth and recovery.

No one likes high school and college sports more than I do.

For the first time in over a decade, your state government is doing what you do every day at home-spending what it takes in and saving for a rainy day.