Piyush Goyal Quotes

The fate of this government depends absolutely upon raising it above the state governments.

The federal government should stay out of it.

Our whole history tells us that the national government has been far less corrupt and incompetent than state and local government … Time and time again the federal government has had to rescue people from the states and local governments. If we left it to the states, we would still have slavery.

The word "federalism" you might think that means federalism trumps everything; federalism means federal domination. It does not mean that. It means the exact opposite, in fact. It means the states are sovereign and the federal government cannot tell 'em what to do in so many different ways.

The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government in the states of the union in regard to non-federal affairs at the local level.

They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.

I'm a strong supporter of states' rights to do what they need.

I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.

The current situation [in Washington DC] will shortly and irresistibly tempt the Congress to reassert federal control over the nation's capital city. If the mayor [Marion Barry] can't restore order, the federal government must.

as a barrier between the central government and the respective states and their citizens.

13 years after Indonesia began devolving power from the federal government to hundreds of sub provincial units, the link between local and national political interests have become extremely tenuous… although locally elected politicians may be delivering things that people want in their own back yards, they are not, collectively meeting the nation’s needs.

I think that the more we, as a state, yield and cede decisions to the federal government, the lesser we'll be for it as a state.

In my eight years as governor, I did everything I could to resist federal control of issues that belong to the states.

What can we do to put more Colorado in Washington and less Washington in Colorado?

Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve.

I think he should let me run Ohio. He should let us, the legislature, the members there, we should be running Ohio. The states are the laboratories out here, and I think the president needs to mind to the problems that he has in Washington.

The fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution. This is power that should be shifted back to the states, whether it's the EPA - there is no role at the federal level for the Department of Education.

What is good for Alaska is good for the country. Transferring power from the federal government to the states provides opportunity to all states, not just Alaska.

Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states of the American Union must judge the constitutionality of the acts of their agent, the federal government, since no impartial arbiter between them exists.

It is a fundamental principle of American law that the regulation of the local police of all the domestic affairs of a State belong to the State itself, and not to the Federal Government.

It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.

Texans can run Texas without the federal government telling them what to do.

We can't have a referendum on every important question. This is a republic, not a democracy. This is Chicago, not California.

The bill is incapable of being executed …. It proceeds entirely upon the idea that the State governments will lend their aid to carry it into effect.

The proposed system [of American government] is like the solar system, in which the states are the planets, and they ought to be left to move more freely in their proper orbits.