Federalism quotes

I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton's willingness to go into a state she doesn't even live in and pretend to represent the people there. So I certainly wouldn't imitate it.
-- Alan Keyes

#People #Federalism #Clinton

Federalism isn’t about states’ rights. It’s about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.
-- Elizabeth Price Foley

#Rights #Liberty #Federalism

So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.
-- Herbert Croly

#Federalism #Faults #Tendencies

But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm . . . But what degree of madness could ever drive the federal government to such an extremity.
-- James Madison

#Government #Ambitious #Federalism

So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented; and the national sovereignty, as such, has no representation.
-- Joseph Story

#Government #Federalism #Branches

Our executive branch does not believe in interfering with what the legislative branch chooses to do. We believe in federalism.
-- Kellyanne Conway

#Believe #Doe #Federalism

Federalism isn’t about states’ rights. It’s about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.
-- Elizabeth Price Foley

#Rights #Liberty #Federalism

The federalism term is a good term, but it's just below the surface; it's just about to come up into wider public understanding that these practices are happening and are politically viable.
-- Gar Alperovitz

#Practice #Understanding #Federalism