Country Quote by Doug Burgum

We're a small state. Our quantity of representation in Washington is not as large as a Texas, an Ohio, or a New York. So…

— Scott Pruitt

States know better than the federal government how to allocate and manage resources to address the needs of their people.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

We have more corporations in Florida than the next four states combined. Why is that? Because it's easy.

— Francis X. Suarez

We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and let local…

— Pete Sessions

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

We have states. And we have cities. And we have counties. And we have the private sector. And - and so the country still…

— Barack Obama

Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government,…

— Mitt Romney

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

— Calvin Coolidge

The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer than in other states.

— Herb Asher

We talk about federalism as 50 cauldrons of democracy but think it is really 50 platforms in the nation and each state has a…

— Doug Burgum

We're not the States of America; we're the United States of America. If states don't get what they need, we're not going to have…

— Anna Eshoo

The problem is that in America is that the nation state has been so weak when it comes to the history of big markets…

— Cornel West