Tate Reeves

“Let's eliminate the income tax, which is one huge speed bump to long-term economic growth and recovery.”

“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.”

“I strongly support anyone's right to peacefully protest.”

“We deliberately filled our rainy-day fund to its statutory capacity over my time leading the Mississippi Senate as lieutenant governor.”

“Big government intervention creates as many problems as it solves - that was the lesson of Obamacare.”

“We've made great progress in educating and informing the public on the importance of getting more rigorous computer science education in all of our schools so that students have the knowledge, skills and abilities to compete for the best jobs in the new 21st century digital economy.”

“There are some people in our state who may choose a different public school because they have the private means to move from one district to the other. But why should we limit choice just to those who can financially afford it?”

“Conservative policies work.”

“Personal responsibility is better than any government order.”

“I do not think it's good public policy to put 300,000 more Mississippians on government health care.”

“There's public health risks to doing large political gatherings, but in this country - and we do still live in America - we protect the right to free speech and we protect the right to political discourse and political events.”

“I was just 29 years old when I first took an oath in this Capitol to serve the people of this great state.”

“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.”

“We should invest in healthcare... We can and we should do all of this without succumbing to the siren song of big government.”

“I know that our state has what it takes to be exceptional. And I know that with God's continued providence and our unconquerable spirit, together, we can get there.”

“We've been tested by every force of nature, disease, and human frailty.”

“No one likes high school and college sports more than I do.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“Guidelines are better than lockdowns.”