“I don't believe there is any constitutional or statutory authority for...” — Tate Reeves Quote

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.”

“In practice, presidents have typically tended to think of themselves not just as stewards for their party, but also of the presidency itself - preserving the full scope of its constitutional power for their successors is part of their job.”

“All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to the government of the point at which it will meet with resistance.”

“In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.”

“Thousands of E.U. law instruments have come onto the U.K. statute book - all without the democratic legitimacy our constitutional traditions expect.”