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In a federal structure such as ours, state governments are imperative for the smooth functioning of our overall polity. They can't just be wished…

— Pinarayi Vijayan

We’re against the state, not government. The state just happens to monopolize the government.

— Stephan Kinsella

I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.

— Jim Doyle

My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.

— Rick Perry

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

— Alexander Hamilton

And it's absolutely hypocritical for the political party that talks about states rights, to suddenly ignore states rights, that say that the federal government…

— Gary Ackerman

I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and…

— Naomi Novik

The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The state sovereignty is key here in the Electoral College - and if you're going to start divvying up the power of each state's…

— Rush Limbaugh

What's wrong is that we are not participating to make this the type of government it needs to be.

— Mike Lowry

“The state — or, to make matters more concrete, the government — consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They…

— H.L. Mencken