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I'm not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.

Mike Huckabee

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Mike Huckabee
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 24
Former Governor Of Arkansas
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