Eric Garcetti Quotes

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.

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.

Devolution [decentralization of government] cannot stop at the State House. It must go down to City Hall.

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

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 hope that we increasingly shift power to local governments.

Republicans believe that problems are best solved at the level closest to the people and that the nation's strength comes from the diversity of its people, not from an all-powerful central government.

I do believe that power needs to be returned to the states. I think that we've got way too much power in Washington. This is where I'm focused: way too much power in Washington.

Fellow conservatives, particularly within the Republican Party, typically do a good job arguing against totalitarian, one-size-fits-all approaches to policy. What works for a family in New York City might not work in Jenison, Michigan, or Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Solutions and ideas should come from the bottom up, generated by local communities and not mandated from Washington.

Lisa Nandy is absolutely right that we need to devolve economic power away from Westminster and learn from what Labour councils around the country are doing.

I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education.

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.

That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer.

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.

To enable consensus politics to develop we need to empower people where they live. This means devolving financial resources and political power down to the community level. One of the greatest blocks to movement is fear. This fear can only be removed when people feel their voices are being heard by government and when they have a say in their own lives and communities.

Perhaps democracy should be begun at the local level first. America was many local democracies before democracy came to the national level.

With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.

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.

Europe must act quickly where it's needed and must, once and for all, let member states handle what is their exclusive domain.

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

States know better than the federal government how to allocate and manage resources to address the needs of their people.

I do not believe that the best ideas come from Washington.

Conservatives believe in patriotism, but equally in community and the importance of local identity. We believe in devolution. We believe in localism. We believe that decisions should be taken locally wherever is practical; that communities matter.