"I'm prolife. I'm not going to apologize for becoming prolife. Ronald Reagan followed that same course, as did Henry Hyde and George Herbert Walker Bush. And I'm proud to be prolife."
Huckabee supported "a tuition break to the children of illegals that are here illegally when citizens are having to pay a higher rate."
"John McCain is right on that one. The line-item veto is the best tool the president has to rein in excessive spending."
President Clinton "reduced the scale of our military dramatically."
"I have not changed my position on the (gay) marriage amendment or anything else related to marriage."
"It doesn't make sense to me to send $1-billion a day out of our country. We can be energy independent and should be."
"Mayor Giuliani made New York City what's known as a 'sanctuary city,' where illegal aliens were allowed to come. And he instructed the leaders of the city not to enforce the law, not to enforce immigration law."
"The Republican governor who stood up and cut spending instead of raising taxes."
"(McCain) said he was opposed to overturning Roe v. Wade. Now he's for overturning Roe v. Wade."
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