 | Mike Huckabee Republican Candidate
Arkansas | General - "At the same time, my administration will never surrender any of our sovereignty, which is why I was the first presidential candidate to oppose ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty, which would endanger both our national security and our economic interests." Mike Huckabee, Priorities in the War on Terror: Islamists, Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan in Foreign Affairs vol. 87 no. 1, Jan/Feb 2008,
- HUCKABEE: "And look what we`re doing. The LOST treaty, the Law of the Sea Treaty, we`re about to ratify this. It`s the dumbest thing we`ve ever done. It`s like taking our sovereignty and handing it over to some international tribunal. What`s wrong with us?"
BECK: "Explain the LOST theory -- or LOST treaty."
HUCKABEE: "The Law of the Sea Treaty essentially would say that the United States would give up certain controls of its territorial waters. It would give up its sovereign understanding of what it can do within its own seas, both at the surface and within the depths, and that we would virtually hand ourselves over to an international body of justice.
Look, this country established itself under one authority, the Constitution of the United States, not some international treaty, not international law. It ought to be scary enough you have federal judges at the appellate level who are using international cases as a precedent for their decisions.
This is the kind of continuation of what is not a matter of saying, "Hey, we live in a great big world, we`re in a global economy." We`re way beyond that when we start saying we`re going to subject ourselves to international law." Appearance on the Glenn Beck Show, CNN Headline News, 11/19/07
- "If [Hillary Clinton is] president... We'll sign crazy bills like the Law of the Sea Treaty and give away our sovereignty." Fox News Channel Republican Debate in Orlando, Florida, 10/21
Counter-Terrorism/Detention - "...if we let somebody out [of Guantanamo] and it turns out that they come and fly an airliner into one of our skyscrapers, we're going to be asking, how come we didn't stop them? We had them detained.
There's not a perfect solution. The perfect solution is to get people to quit being terrorists. And that's not something we can easily control. If we're going to make a mistake right now, let's make it on the side of protecting the American people. That's the number one role and responsibility that an American president has right now." Interview with Mike Huckabee, CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, 6/10/07
Climate Change and Environment - "We think of globalization as primarily an economic issue and the war on terror as primarily a military issue. Yet the same key unlocks the door to success in both, and that key is energy independence." Huckabee website
Trade Agreements - "Since the United States does no business directly with Iran, these sanctions will have an impact only if other countries honor them. United Nations sanctions will have to remain weak if China and Russia are to support them, but I have greater hope for tougher ones from the European Union, Iran's biggest trading partner. With Nicolas Sarkozy as president of France, we now have a much more willing ally." Mike Huckabee, America's Priorities in the War on Terror: Islamists, Iraq, Iran, and Pakistanin Foreign Affairs, vol. 87 no. 1, Jan/Feb 2008.
- BECK: "I believe that a North American alliance in the style of the E.U. is our future."
HUCKABEE: "It`s our death."
BECK: "Do you believe it`s being -- do you believe in a NAFTA superhighway, that this is just kind of -- you know, the government never puts these things out on the table. They always just put a little here and a little there, and then they deny, "No, we`re not doing that...."
HUCKABEE: "Anytime we give up anything of our sovereignty, whether it`s our borders, or our laws, or our regulations, we have violated our own Constitution. The answer`s no."
BECK: "Do you believe that that is some people`s plan, to put that whole NAFTA superhighway..."
HUCKABEE: "I think it`s some people`s plan. I don`t know if it`s the president`s plan, but I do believe there are those who think that`s a grand idea, and I think it`s a terrible idea." Appearance on the Glenn Beck Show, CNN Headline News, 10/19/07
International Security/ Non-Proliferation - "I support going forward with the current plan to set up ten missile interceptors in Poland and a radar system in the Czech Republic to protect Europe from Iranian missiles. Putin opposes an antimissile system in the former Soviet satellite states (even though we have offered to share the technology with the Russians) and our potential use of Azerbaijan, a former Soviet republic, as a staging ground for an attack on Iran." Mike Huckabee, America's Priorities in the War on Terror: Islamists, Iraq, Iran, and Pakistanin Foreign Affairs, vol. 87 no. 1, Jan/Feb 2008.
- "Iran will not acquire nuclear weapons on my watch." Mike Huckabee, America's Priorities in the War on Terror: Islamists, Iraq, Iran, and Pakistanin Foreign Affairs, vol. 87 no. 1, Jan/Feb 2008.
International Institutions/ UN Reform - BECK: "OK. So let me just cover -- let me back up here. Let`s go back and talk about the Medellin case here just a little bit, because that one is riddled with all kinds of booby traps and land mines. One, that is, if the Supreme Court rules in favor of Medellin, that means an international tribunal, the Hague, is above the Constitution, right or wrong?"
HUCKABEE: "Absolutely right. In fact, we ought to impeach the judges who vote that way, because they have violated their oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States. There is no obligation for a United States court to say, "Let`s see what they think over there at the Hague.' Heck with that. We have law. You come to this country; you break our law; you suffer the penalty of our law, not your law. You want to break your law" Go home and do it. But in our country, break our law, and the law will break you." Appearance on the Glenn Beck Show, CNN Headline News, 10/19/07
Human Rights - "...There are repressive regimes that stay in power by force and through the suppression of basic human rights -- many of which we support by buying oil, such as the Saudi government, or with foreign aid, such as the Egyptian government, our second-largest recipient of aid." Mike Huckabee, America's Priorities in the War on Terror: Islamists, Iraq, Iran, and Pakistanin Foreign Affairs, vol. 87 no. 1, Jan/Feb 2008.
- [on Vladimir Putin] "And when people take actions that cause us to give concern to human rights violations, to oppression -- and I don't care what their eyes are saying -- their actions are speaking a whole lot louder than their eyes ever will." CNN/Politico/Los Angeles Times Republican Debate, Reagan Library, 1/30/08
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