Asa Hutchinson Quotes

I'm, you know, having begun my public service in state government. I very much respect the authority of states to make the decisions to provide for its citizen - the safety and welfare of its citizens.

People say, 'In Washington, things can't get done.' We at the state level have to get it done. We don't have filibusters and kicking the can down the road - we don't have that luxury. We've gotta act, and we've got to keep our citizens safe. We've got to grow our economies and provide education and a transportation system that's efficient.

as a barrier between the central government and the respective states and their citizens.

… state authority should not be needlessly usurped by a centralized government. But I also believe that an obligation rests with the national government to see that the citizens of every state are treated equally.

I don't want to tell Gov. Brewer what to do; she can do what's best for her state.

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.

There is no direct and immediate connection between the individual citizens of a state and the general government. The relation between them is through the state. The Union is a union of states as communities and not a union of individuals.

When Congress exercises the powers delegated to it by the Constitution, it may impose affirmative obligations on executive and judicial officers of state and local governments as well as ordinary citizens.

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.

I would never abdicate, nor would I expect any other governor to abdicate, the responsibility to protect the people of my state.

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

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 States have always borne primary responsibility for operating the machinery of criminal justice within their borders, and adapting it to their peculiar circumstances.

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.

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

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.

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

The state has a duty to protect all its citizens.

Particularly as a supposed 'conservative,' Trump ought to know something about the relationship between the federal government and the states.

The Supreme Court has been clear that states have the right to protect their citizens against out-of-state regulations that would burden those citizens.

States are the architects of UDAY, not the central government.

As your Governor, I will not stand complicit to a policy that places the citizens of Alabama in harm's way.

That's what the founding fathers intended, that most decisions be made at the state level, not at the federal level.

The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens.