Tate Reeves

We can't have career criminals walking around with no records. The law enforcement community that I spoke with agreed.

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?

I like to look at the good things that are happening.

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.

$100 million, while a lot of money, is nowhere near what's going to be needed to respond to COVID-19.

Eliminating the franchise tax is really about economic growth on Main Street.

I'm committed to spending more money on public education.

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.

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.

We don't pay our teachers what they're worth.

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.

We don't need union bosses to tell us how to take care of our people. We never have, and we never will in Mississippi.

No business is non-essential to those who rely on its paycheck for food, for supplies and for shelter.

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.

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.

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

We have to be willing to make sacrifices.

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.

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.'

The state does not run the water system in the city of Jackson. Perhaps we should.

I'm not a great patient, and so I don't love shots.

I strongly support anyone's right to peacefully protest.

I don't believe there is any constitutional or statutory authority for any president to shut down Mississippi's economy.

We think one of the priorities in Mississippi is not to do what some would suggest, which is to defund the police. Rather, we want to have an initiative to actually fund the police.

We, as a state, need to think big. What can we do to make a splash? What can we to do to say to the world, 'Not only do we want you to invest capital here, we want you to move here?'

We are a people of great faith.

When we stand united we will emerge stronger as a state.

We think that - that our elections process, which has been in place for many, many years, is a - ensures that we have a fair process in which we have the opportunity to limit fraud. We still have fraudulent claims every single election.

I reject the mobs tearing down statues of our history - north and south, Union and Confederate, founding fathers and veterans.

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.

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.

I am committed to elevating our public schools.

A culture of love and kinship has knitted Mississippi families together, and tied them to each other, for ages. It is what makes us special in a fast-paced and transient world. I will defend that culture against the erosion that frays societies.

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.

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.

President Biden is the duly-elected president and we will do everything we can to work with him to help the citizens of Mississippi.

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.

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.

We should not use the heavy hand of government more than it is justified.

We are a resilient people defined by our hospitality.

I'm not afraid to tell people, 'No.'

Every kid in our state deserves an opportunity for success.

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 all know that campaigns are necessarily tough.

Battles in the Legislature can be tough.

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.

Mississippi's never going to be North Korea.

Mississippi's never going to be China.

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.

I don't know how many ways I can explain this to y'all but I'm opposed to Obamacare expansion in Mississippi because it is not in the best interest of taxpayers.