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Said he's the only Republican candidate "who's actually turned around a government economy."
"...some of those (tax increases) were either court-ordered, or they were voted on by the people and approved by the people for (such) things as roads."
"He's a good man but he's a pro-life liberal. He's right on the pro-life part, but he's a liberal."
"Sixty-five percent of the Iraqi people now say it's okay to shoot an American soldier."
"I believe in tax cuts. I believe in being a supply-sider. I cut the income tax I think it was 24 percent. We got 42 percent more revenues."
"The $2.3-billion budget deficit I inherited when I came into office became a $2.9-billion surplus."
"People were hopeless. Sixty percent of the population, 70 percent of the population wanted to live somewhere else. . . . By the time I left, 70 percent wanted to stay."
Recent stories from Neil Skene
Huckabee's 'liberal' problemNo one doubts Mike Huckabee's sincerity as a social conservative, but his sympathy tax hikes and government programs haunts him.
Who made Big Apple sweeter?Rudy Giuliani presided over an economic rebound in New York City, but his claims ignore the nation's economic expansion. And he doesn't mention the less rosy details of his tenure.
Neil Skene is a Tallahassee writer and a contributor to PolitiFact.
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