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 First Lady Janet Huckabee:

"Mike and I have been married 41 years now, but after our first year of marriage I started experiencing some back pain, and you don't like to hear the word cancer. And you certainly don't like to hear the word malignant."

"I think Mike really was the hero in all of it because he would get up early in the morning, pack me into the car, he would drive an hour to an hour and twenty minutes to my radiation therapy and then bring me back home, put me in the house, and be in class that morning, plus hold a job down."

"If he could have left me, he should have done it right then, and he chose to stick it out. He made a promise to me, for better or for worse, in sickness and in health. He had to live up to that promise right then in our first couple years of marriage."

"I don't know how you can go through anything like that and not get stronger."

"As Governor and First Lady, one thing I did learn about Mike is his leadership qualities. He had the capacity to take any situation, look at it, and see how each decision he could make further down the road would affect the state and the people."

"For Katrina, our state inherited 75,000 people in just a few days. Mike instantly said I want all my faith leaders to come forward - your summer is over - any denomination that had a camp for instance, where they already had beds, they already had playgrounds, they already had cafeterias - he says I need you need to open up, we're going to put these new residents that we have into your camps. And every camp became another little town. They loved them. They took them in, and so much so that many didn't even want to leave. Through the whole thing Mike said 'People first, paperwork later. Don't treat these people like boxes.'"

"One of the important parts of really running for any office, but primarily running for president, is that you are willing to give up something in order to do it, because it's not an easy task."

"But I'm always reminded of a song that said 'may all who come behind us find us faithful.' l hope that even those headlines that my children and my grandchildren will see, that they will see that we were faithful...not just what we were given as governor and first lady, as mom and dad, or as grandmother and grandfather, but that we were faithful in running our campaign, that we did it to the best of our ability, but did it with good character and nothing to be ashamed about and to be proud of what we did."

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Notes: Here is an example of the candidate's spouse featured in a video; Janet Huckabee focuses on Mike Huckabee's steadfastness during her treatment for cancer and on his leadership responding to the influx of people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.  Compare to the Rand Paul for President video  "Kelley's Words"

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