Stacey Dash Quotes

President-elect Trump and I know it won't be Washington, D.C., that unlocks our nation's potential, nor a bigger bureaucracy, tougher mandates, or a federal agency. The answer is local control and listening to parents, students, and teachers.

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

When it comes to education, no solution, not even ones we like, should be dictated or run from Washington, D.C.

I am going to provide school choice and put an end to common core and bring our education local.

I don't think the federal government should be involved in making life work, right? I mean, the enumerated powers - the state level is fine. The local level's fine. But not - I do not want the federal government trying to make my life work.

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.

Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.

The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.

Someday I hope Americans will not believe that anyone had to spend his or her days fighting for limited government because everyone they know wants maximum freedom and minimum statism.

These things I believe: that government should butt out.

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government.

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

Expect little of government, especially national government.

Our devotion to individual freedom limits our readiness to give central government the power to override our traditional power structure.

This is a country that historically has had very little central government.

I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

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

I believe the role of the government is too big. Society must be more decentralized.

We Conservatives believe not in big, interventionist, centralized government. But in small and limited government, government as close to the people as possible.

It's time to return our education policy back to local communities.

Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction. And if you can go even further, and send it back to the private sector, that's even better.

We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end.

We just simply want to get back to basics, get - restore essentially the constitutional foundation of the country, and that means the federal government becoming less onerous, less involved in every - basically every item of our lives. And what that means is there does have to be some transition.

There's a lot of the Midwest and the West in Justice Rehnquist's approach to constitutional law. And by that I mean a recognition that people know pretty well how to govern themselves, that government that is closest to the people is apt to be more responsive to their legitimate concerns and needs.