Gladys Berejiklian Quotes

I'm in favor of immigration but we also need 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.

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

If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.

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 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.

Anyone who sincerely wanted to use policy to reduce illegal immigration should start by crafting legislation based on changing actual behavior.

The fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution. This is power that should be shifted back to the states, whether it's the EPA - there is no role at the federal level for the Department of Education.

No matter how many lawyers and lawsuits Obama throws at Arizona, we will have the American people and the Constitution on our side.

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.

The federal government should stay out of it.

There is a tension between the flexibility we give states and the accountability we require from states.

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

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

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

It is important that we enact immigration reform.

When the federal government imposes a mandate on the states or supersedes a state policy, conservatives often rise in protest.

We need to stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas policy pushed hard by President Clinton and allowing many persons from the Middle East to come to this country.

The federal government must retreat from its hyperactive involvement in areas traditionally under states' authority and refuse future temptations to regulate and legislate on every issue that happens to come to mind.

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

Refugee policy is only one part of immigration law needing a drastic overhaul.

Every country has the right to manage who comes in and out of those borders.

People don't appreciate the extent to which we've set in motion a substantial and long-overdue change to U.S. immigration policy, simply by directing the DHS to use existing laws and authorities.

Congress makes immigration law. It's that simple. That is how our system works.