“And if I decide to run for president, I won’t know what the answer is, either. But I will know this: if I run for President, what you see is what you get, and I am from Mississippi, I do have a Southern accent. I was a lobbyist and a pretty damned good one. … And I will tell you this — the next president of the United States on January 21, 2013 — is going to start lobbying. He’s going to be lobbying Congress, he’s going to be lobbying other countries. He’s going to be lobbying the business community. He’s going to be lobbying the labor unions, the governors, because that’s what Presidents do, and I feel like it’s an advantage for me to have the chance to do that.
— Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R), addressing how he’ll handle questions about his former profession if he decides to run for president in 2012, according to GOP 12.
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