State governments should not have to compete in bidding…

It's the government's job to come in and help their citizens and guide their citizens to a brighter future and unfortunately in America that's…

— Cristian Machado

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

There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice.

— Alexander Hamilton

But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or…

— James Madison

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

— Narendra Modi

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 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

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

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

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

Too much of power has got concentrated in the hands of the Central and state governments.

— Arvind Kejriwal

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

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

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