Haley Barbour Federal Quotations

Eliminating the federal share of CPB funding would free up $400 million this year, ... That is enough money to build 40 elementary schools.

We believe the damage in Mississippi the federal government should help pay for is less than $50 billion, ... It may even be in the 30s.

In the next month or so, the federal government will act on a variety of issues and the state will have to take further action to do our share.

There was a part in there that people could have taken the impression that we in Mississippi need the federal government to come in and take over what we're doing, that we need some kind of czar to tell us how to run Mississippi. We don't need that, ... Larry King Live.

The federal government is not prioritizing; they're throwing everything they've got at it, ... They've even deployed the Navy, the first time in our nation's history it's been used for a natural disaster. They are pushing everything in here possible from thousands of National Guard troops to temporary living quarters to the best scientists and epidemiologists. This will be the biggest relief effort, the largest humanitarian effort in the history of the world.

the federal government has been good partners to us.

that the federal government understands that it has a major commitment here. It's going to be required to support financially what we do, particularly in areas of public infrastructure.

We do need the federal government's help. We need them to be a good partner, but we don't need a takeover,