Best Quote by Doug Burgum

Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist…

— Alex Tabarrok

The word "federalism" you might think that means federalism trumps everything; federalism means federal domination. It does not mean that. It means the exact…

— Rush Limbaugh

One of the signs that things are going reasonably well for democracy is that we have the states where they're closer to the people.…

— Condoleezza Rice

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power…

— Lord Acton

We have our differences since the beginning of America. It's a legitimate difference. What is the role of government, et cetera, federal, state, local?

— Nancy Pelosi

“American democracy rests on a foundation of competing tensions among local, state, and federal laws,”

— Ted Koppel

Federalism is an intrinsic part of our constitutional set-up.

— Naveen Patnaik

We need to reinstate the idea of federalism.

— Jeff Fortenberry

Federalism isn’t about states’ rights. It’s about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.

— Elizabeth Price Foley

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

— Narendra Modi

The federalism term is a good term, but it's just below the surface; it's just about to come up into wider public understanding that…

— Gar Alperovitz

Because of differences in geography, density, socio-economic patterns, each of our states are very different. A one-size-fits-all federal approach won't work. Our economy is…

— Doug Burgum