Words matter. These are the best Tate Reeves Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I was attacked for being stingy and not spreading money around to popular programs. Ahead of my 2019 run for governor, those stances cost me politically.
President Biden is the duly-elected president and we will do everything we can to work with him to help the citizens of Mississippi.
I don’t think revenue in any one day, week, month or year should determine long-term tax policy.
When you are making mandates on individuals to do things like wear masks and you’re making mandates on individual business owners to put guidelines in place… they need a little bit of lead time to build up and get that done.
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.
The people of Mississippi can’t just go home, shut down their small business, shut down their restaurants, shut down their gyms… and just think that you can come back six weeks from now, flip a switch and everything’s gonna be fine. That’s not the way the economy works.
We should invest in healthcare… We can and we should do all of this without succumbing to the siren song of big government.
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.
No one likes high school and college sports more than I do.
Mississippi’s never going to be North Korea.
Do we have hospital capacity issues? We do. But the reality is in our state and virtually ever other rural state across America, we have ICU bed issues and hospital capacity issues even when there’s not COVID-19.
Now, I can admit that as a young boy growing up in Florence, I couldn’t have understood the pain that some of our neighbors felt when they looked at our flag – a pain that made many feel unwelcome and unwanted.
Personal responsibility is better than any government order.
Conservative policies work.
We are taking the steps to transform education in Mississippi with every dollar invested in the classroom and every initiative expanding educational opportunities for students.
We have to be willing to make sacrifices.
Every kid in our state deserves an opportunity for success.
The people of Mississippi, black and white, and young and old, can be proud of a banner that puts our faith front and center. We can unite under it. We can move forward together.
Many of my friends and allies – not to mention my critics – lobbied me to spend on worthy causes. Who cares about a rainy-day fund when times are good? There are raises to give and projects to fund!
I want to make sure everybody in this state understands that I am going to prioritize the education of our young people first and foremost.
We’ve been tested by every force of nature, disease, and human frailty.
We need a governor focused on job creation, bringing better and higher paying jobs to Mississippi.
The state does not run the water system in the city of Jackson. Perhaps we should.
Big government intervention creates as many problems as it solves – that was the lesson of Obamacare.
It is fashionable in some quarters to say our ancestors were all evil. I reject that notion. I also reject the elitist worldview that these United States are anything but the greatest nation in the history of mankind.
We’re gonna run this state like Donald J. Trump is running America.
I do not think it’s good public policy to put 300,000 more Mississippians on government health care.
A growing, vibrant economy solves more problems than any government giveaway ever could.
I strongly support anyone’s right to peacefully protest.
Caution leads you to stock up on essentials and prepare your family for time in the home together.
I don’t believe some arbitrary line should preclude parents getting the best education possible for that child.
Guidelines are better than lockdowns.
I want all Mississippians to know that every man and woman of every region, every background, every race, every class, and every home in our state has my admiration and my respect.
At some point we have to let Americans make the decision that they think is best for them and their family.
It should not matter what a kid’s zip code is nor should it matter what their mom and dad do or in some instance don’t do for a living.
We will right the wrongs of the past, and we will do everything in our power to protect the dignity of every Mississippi life.
Trust with risk is better than unchecked government power.
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.
The approach I take to legislation a lot of times is that Mississippi has been a state for 198 years, and if we have made it this long without a particular law being on the books, we can probably make it another year without it.
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.
I am committed to elevating our public schools.
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.
We need a governor strong enough to take us to our full potential. Jim Hood won’t, but I will.
Let’s eliminate the income tax, which is one huge speed bump to long-term economic growth and recovery.
It is my mission to spend every single day creating a climate where good careers are plentiful – with every Mississippian prepared to pursue them.
Joe Biden is the duly-elected president of the United States. He was certified by all 50 states either having won or lost, and he lost my state by 20 points, but he was certified in each of the individual states and certified by the U.S. Congress and he is the duly-elected president.
We should not use the heavy hand of government more than it is justified.
If people want to wear a mask into a Walmart or into a restaurant or into any other business – not only should they be allowed to do so; in many instances, they ought to be credited for doing so.
Our state, we do not allow mail-in voting and the reason we don’t allow mail-in voting is we don’t think that – we think it allows for lots of opportunities for fraud and other things. And I don’t think mail-in voting should be allowed in other states around the nation.
There is a difference between caution and panic.
I am not threatening, I am promising the full force of our state will be ready and willing to defend our communities.
We are a people of great faith.
The people of Mississippi overwhelmingly voted to keep our flag in 2001. I oppose unilateral action by the governor or the Legislature or any other backroom deal by politicians in Jackson to change it.
Panic moves you to hoard essentials and prevent others from getting what they need.
Battles in the Legislature can be tough.
Mississippi is a beautiful, powerful state. We have many natural resources: from the fertile soil that produces our crops to the beautiful coastline that draws visitors from around the world. But Mississippi’s greatest resource has always been and will always be our people.
I’m committed to spending more money on public education.
I don’t support vaccine passports. I don’t think it’s necessary and I don’t think it’s a good thing to do in America.
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.’
I reject the mobs tearing down statues of our history – north and south, Union and Confederate, founding fathers and veterans.
