Cory Gardner Quotes

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

I often say that Arizonans should decide what's best for Arizona.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I have long been in favor of states and cities within states making up their own minds whether or not they want to permit fracking. I have been supportive of that.

I don't want to be the president of the United States. I do want to work with the governors across the country to make the states more pivotal, more powerful, as they should be.

I don't think the federal government should be a part of everything. I think that governing should be done state-by-state... so that you can tailor your governing to the people's needs.

I'm pro-life but I believe that the federal government ought to stay out of it. That's a decision that the people of each state ought to make for themselves.

We don't need unelected federal agency bureaucrats in Washington telling our states what they can and can't do with respect to protecting their limited taxpayer dollars in private enterprises.

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.

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.

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.

I am going to make Washington as irrelevant to your lives as possible

The arm of the Federal government is long, but it is far too short to protect the rights of individuals in the interior of distant States. They must have the power to protect themselves, or they will go unprotected, in spite of all the laws the Federal government can put upon the national statute-book.

You can’t secure the country from inside the Beltway. The Federal government has got to trust the state Attorney’s General with critical information.

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.

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not 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.