Garrett Hardin Quotes

We need to allow people to bypass government... to look to themselves for solving problems rather than asking the government to do things for them.

I think a lot of things could be handled locally.

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.

To involve young people and make sure that the system is more relevant to them in Scotland, we have a clear obligation to implement a policy of home rule.

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

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.

Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust.

Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.

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

There is a lack of emphasis and detail on self-government of business enterprises and community government. There is too much emphasis on the part that the Project Director and his staff play. Governmental officials should not impose their will on the residents, but the government should be formulated by the residents. It is absolutely essential that the personnel understand and sympathize with the policy of self-government.

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

Each county elector makes his own rules

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.

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.

Collective decisions about health care and education are best answered on a local level.

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

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.

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

We have reached a moment in our history where we think that every problem in America has to have a federal government solution. Every problem in America does not have a federal government solution. In fact, most problems in America do not have a federal government solution and many of them are created by the federal government to begin with.

We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.

God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.

People have the most control over their affairs at the grass-roots level. Anything that can be fairly and efficiently handled at a grass-roots level should be thus handled, and only delegated to a higher authority when necessary.

No one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems.