Constitution Quote by Naveen Patnaik

Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.

— Bob Barr

The idea of ensuring that federal research dollars should be reasonably spread around is an arguably useful goal. But it should be done per…

— Bill Foster

It's traditionally not federal policy to fund state and local salaries. It's done sometimes on a temporary basis or a grant basis. But it's…

— Jim Talent

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

We need to rid our State Owned Enterprises of corruption because the money being siphoned out should be funding them.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

State has the primary responsibility but the citizen has to spend his or her funds. This is part of neo-liberalism.

— Andre Vltchek

Most existing national capital funds have been built up from royalties from oil and other minerals. They need not be limited that way. Most…

— Guy Standing

And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant…

— Michael Chertoff

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 weapon. I don't want to defund a state, a city.I don't want to defund anyone. I want to give them the money…

— Donald Trump

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