Tucker Carlson Quotes

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.

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.

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

The proposed system [of American government] is like the solar system, in which the states are the planets, and they ought to be left to move more freely in their proper orbits.

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.

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.

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

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

My view is that we should not be taxing at the Federal level for the things that New Jersey can do for itself.

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.

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.

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.

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

In our constitutional system, states are free to make decisions and bear the political consequences, good or bad, of those choices.

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

We cannot disrespect the wishes of states.

I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.

I think that decisions should rest in the hands of the states. I'm a federalist.

The word "federalism" you might think that means federalism trumps everything; federalism means federal domination. It does not mean that. It means the exact opposite, in fact. It means the states are sovereign and the federal government cannot tell 'em what to do in so many different ways.

It's a Tenth Amendment issue. If you want Washington, if you want to implement their standards, that's your call... We certainly had higher standards than Common Core, so it was a very easy decision for Texans, myself and the legislature included, to basically say we still believe that Texans know how to best run Texas.

I don't want to be the president of the United States. I do want to work with the governors across the country to make the states more pivotal, more powerful, as they should be.

I wish the 50 states would break up. Lose the centralised government. More choice. How do you want to live, there's 50 different ways! You hate black people? We've a state for that. You wanna have an abortion? Here's a state. I think we should just keep breaking up countries now so they become just individuals.

In Virginia, we want to have our own opportunity to control our own destiny, control our own market.