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Haley Barbour

Founding Partner, BGR Group

Search every verified Haley Barbour interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Haley Barbour, a former Mississippi governor and founding partner at BGR, has continued to comment on national politics and policy. In July 2024, following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, Barbour said on CNN that he believed Trump’s stated intention to focus his campaign on policy issues such as the border, taxes, and national security was “the right thing for him to say.” Barbour described the election as “incredibly important” and said the American people should hear the parties debate policy differences rather than engage in personal attacks. Barbour has also spoken about foreign aid and international development. At a 2016 event during the Republican National Convention, he cited the Marshall Plan as an example of effective foreign assistance, calling it “a bargain” that benefited the U.S. economy and helped rebuild Europe. He has argued that foreign aid serves U.S. national interests and that advocates should make the case to conservative audiences by focusing on results and effectiveness.

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Notable quotes

“When I became governor, we had $160 million deficit. I took 60,000 people off of Medicaid the first three months I was governor because the previous governor didn't take anybody off cuz he probably if they were still on Medicaid they vote for him.”

“At least two inspector generals, the kind of the accounting department for a federal agency, at least two of them wrote up Mississippi's programs as what ought to be the national standard. And it was because we took accounting and and keeping up with the money seriously and did a good job of doing it. I think Mississippi ended up being able to legally account for over 99% of the money we received.”

“We on Wednesday after the storm on Monday, Senator Cochran came and saw me and he said he'd been flown over the coast like I had the previous two days and he said that nobody in Washington was going to know as much about what needed to be done as we would in Mississippi. He said, 'You tell me what you need and I'll try to get it.' And he must have told me that 20 times in the next four months. But he and Trent, all o”

“The eminent domain bill which the Farm Bureau very popular big supporters of mine were behind. They passed both houses by five to one or greater margins. But it was a bad it was bad policy. And so I went to work to just I vetoed it and I went to work to stay my veto and I had to get 18 or 19 I can't remember in the Senate. I got nine black Democrat legislators senators who voted to sustain my veto.”

“It became clear to me that the liberal media elite were not gonna let a guy with my accent from down south, conservative, Christian, Republican. They weren't going to let him beat the first black president. And so I decided not to run.”

“I will confess that in 1990 I quietly was against legalizing gaming, but I was wrong. It turned out to be a great thing, huge amount of money for the state and then half that amount of money for the local governments because that's how we split it up, 8% then a 4% of the tax. You put that tax on there, the taxpayers put in nothing. There is no money that has to be put up by the state or by Jackson or by Hinds County ”

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