Too much of power has got concentrated in the hands of the…

Spending should be transparent. All spending by the Pentagon should be online. Every check. Exceptions should be made for legitimate national security issues. But…

— Grover Norquist

“Until recent history, the central state represented about 5 percent of the economy. ...and further, governments were sufficiently distracted by war to leave economic affairs…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Throughout the history of the United States , war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central state. It…

— Bruce D. Porter

In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples…

— Anonymous

Government is inevitably going to play a very significant role in infrastructure, and in a country with a federal system where vibrancy and economic…

— Norman Ornstein

The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with…

— Joseph Story

The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That's done, as people know, in their own…

— Spencer Abraham

I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed…

— Ryne Sandberg

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments…

— James Madison

State governments should not have to compete in bidding contests against each other in order to get the necessary supplies to protect and help…

— Jaime Harrison

While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national…

— Mitch McConnell

State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for…

— Arne Duncan

The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude…

— Alexander Hamilton

State governments seek local remedies for the globally fabricated deprivations and miseries in vain - just as the individuals-by-the-decree-of-fate (read: by the impact of…

— Zygmunt Bauman

I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.

— Narendra Modi