The Agenda for America
A Republican Direction for the Future
by Gov. Haley Barbour (R, MS)


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Abortion     Haley Barbour: States should have the right to regulate & limit abortions.     Hillary Clinton: No abortion for sex selection in China.

Budget & Economy     Haley Barbour: Reduce government programs for more economic growth.

Civil Rights     Bill Clinton: OpEd: Clinton administration has a love affair with quotas.     Haley Barbour: ADA should allow flexible state & local compliance.     Haley Barbour: When did affirmative action turn into special preferences?

Corporations     Haley Barbour: Cut regulations that increase the cost of doing business.     Haley Barbour: Women-owned businesses doubled after Reagan tax cuts.

Crime     Bill Clinton: 1994 crime bill funded basketball instead of real problem.     George Allen: 1994: led "truth-in-sentencing" reform among states.     Haley Barbour: Three Strikes gets chronic predators off the street for good.     Haley Barbour: Victim's Bill of Rights, including restitution for victims.

Drugs     Bill Clinton: OpEd: "War on Drugs" included gum package labeling.     Haley Barbour: Justice Dept.'s duty is narcotics trafficking.

Education     Bill Clinton: OpEd: "Goals 2000" came close to nationalizing education.     Haley Barbour: Give parents vouchers so they can choose kids' schools.     Haley Barbour: Supports charter schools as a means to local control.     Haley Barbour: Vouchers apply unlimited market forces to education.     Haley Barbour: School prayer restores moral awareness to our schools.     Newt Gingrich: Constitutional amendment to protect right to school prayer.

Environment     Bill Clinton: Signed 1982 Law of the Sea treaty ; awaiting ratification.     Haley Barbour: Rely on voluntary incentives to solve environmental problems.     Haley Barbour: Kangaroo rats are not more important than people's homes.     Haley Barbour: Allow drilling in ANWR.     Haley Barbour: "Sustainable development" represents a scarcity mentality.     Haley Barbour: 1982 Law of the Sea treaty is socialistic and ill-considered.     Newt Gingrich: 1995: Entrepreneurial scientific approach to environment.     Ronald Reagan: 1983: Extended sovereign control 200 miles off US coast.

Families & Children     Newt Gingrich: No society can survive with 12-year-olds having babies.

Foreign Policy     Bill Clinton: During Russian crisis, stood arm-in-arm with Boris Yeltsin.     Bill Clinton: Routinely provide intelligence info to the UN.     Haley Barbour: Political leadership; economic strength; military power.     Haley Barbour: Fund defense budget & support NATO.     Haley Barbour: Fund defense budget & support NATO.     Haley Barbour: Russian return to imperial activity would be tragic mistake.     Haley Barbour: Move US embassy to Jerusalem & recognize Israeli sovereignty.

Free Trade     Bill Clinton: Completed the Reagan-Bush achievements on NAFTA.     Haley Barbour: Use the WTO and NAFTA to insist on domestic interests.     Haley Barbour: Focus on making the WTO work for American interests.     Ronald Reagan: 1985: Articulated goal of Western Hemisphere free trade.

Government Reform     Haley Barbour: Remove barriers; enhance individual opportunity.

Gun Control     Haley Barbour: Gun control doesn't work; moral choices do.

Health Care     Haley Barbour: Opposed Clinton's plan for government-run healthcare.     Haley Barbour: States should mandate that insurers do not cancel policies.

Homeland Security     Bill Clinton: OpEd: Counterproliferation failed; Iran got nuke from Russia.     Haley Barbour: The US must secure peace through strength and dominance.     Haley Barbour: Adequate resources for readiness, as well as needed hardware.     Haley Barbour: Need missile defense against blackmail and terrorism.

Immigration     Haley Barbour: Expedite removal of those who are in the US unlawfully.     Haley Barbour: Official English unites Americans.     Haley Barbour: Humanitarian & political admissions OK; but not economic.

Principles & Values     Haley Barbour: Return to founders' idea of personal responsibility.     Newt Gingrich: Leaders of the American Revolution were committed to God.

Tax Reform     Haley Barbour: Capital gains tax is a double tax.

Technology     Haley Barbour: Remove limitations on privatizing airports.

War & Peace     Haley Barbour: Don't place US forces under UN command.     Haley Barbour: Deny rogue countries access to WMD.

Welfare & Poverty     Haley Barbour: Welfare is harmful in many, many ways.     Haley Barbour: Real welfare reformers seek to uphold the American family.     Haley Barbour: Enterprise zones let poor neighborhoods get honest jobs.     Ronald Reagan: Switch from project-based to tenant-based subsidy program.

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The above quotations are from The Agenda for America
A Republican Direction for the Future
by Gov. Haley Barbour (R, MS).

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