Business Quote by Gary Ackerman

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

— Elizabeth Price Foley

Wringing your hands about states' rights, forget it. They're gone. Basically, the federal government can do whatever it wants. Who's going to protect the…

— Antonin Scalia

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

For states' rights advocates, the Constitution is like a contract that is openly violated by one party with impunity. On paper, the states remain…

— Jonathan Turley

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

— Pinarayi Vijayan

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

“The HHS rule blatantly denies the breadth of First Amendment protection, and violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, under which Congress promotes First Amendment…

— Andrew McCarthy

The state is captive to vested interests.

— Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'

— Ernie Fletcher

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

— Stephan Kinsella

The fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution. This…

— Mike Huckabee

The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel