Jane D. Hull Quotes

Democracy should be home grown.

We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and let local people make decisions about what's best for them.

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

States should have enormous input into the decisions that affect them.

Now is the time for all Alaskans to come together and reach out with our core message of taking power from the federal government and bringing it back home to the people.

The people of every separate political community (dependent Colonies, Provinces, and Territories as well as sovereign States) have an inalienable right to govern themselves in respect to their internal polity.

In Virginia, we want to have our own opportunity to control our own destiny, control our own market.

I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street.

Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the same - the best decisions are those made closest to those who will be impacted by the decisions.

That the people of this State have the sole, exclusive and inherent right of governing and regulating the internal police of the same

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

What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.

I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.

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.

Each State retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence.

[There is no] right of Congress ... to force a good thing upon a people who are unwilling to receive it. The great principle is the right of every community to judge and decide for itself whether a thing is right or wrong, whether it would be good or evil to adopt it.... Whenever you put a limitation upon the right of any people to decide what laws they want, you have destroyed the fundamental principle of self-government.

Many states have legalized medicinal marijuana. I believe the president and the Department of Justice ought to respect the will of these separate states... We are capable of self-government. We don't need some federal gendarme to come and tell us what to do. I believe comity toward the states...ought to govern the policy.

Democracy must be internally generated. You cannot force it from the top - it's not going to work.

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.

I believe in decentralized democracy.

Whenever Washington makes a one-size-fits-all decision, it doesn't work in states all around the country.

Let's put Coloradans in charge; let's put Westerners in charge of the West.

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.

One of the best ways to stop the failed policies coming out of Congress is to bring in the ideas and the involvement of the American people, which the America Speaking Out project is designed to do.

In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.