Accepting Quote by Bob Barr

I don't have a problem with the Centre sanctioning funds to any state. However, when this is done for narrow political considerations, it damages…

— Naveen Patnaik

If you have a federal government that's not enforcing the law and does not preserve the integrity of its own borders, then naturally, states…

— Pat Toomey

It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance on the…

— Alan Dershowitz

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and…

— Tom Stoppard

The state is captive to vested interests.

— Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

No state can invest the kinds of dollars in infrastructure necessary on their own. They need federal help.

— Bob Casey, Jr

States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves.

— Richard N. Haass

Encroachment upon the powers and rights of States also goes against the grain of the Constitution and federal principles.

— Pinarayi Vijayan

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

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of…

— Albert J. Nock

The best critical consideration of the inherent weakness of a federation of states in which the law of the federation has to be enforced…

— Kenneth Waltz