I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church.
Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.
I have my strong views and opinions. I really want to transform Illinois government because this state is failing the taxpayers and the children.
Being a successful CEO, where I've driven a bottom line, assembled teams, driven results, that's a critical benefit to running the state government.
First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice.
I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do.
Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means.
Because the state uses violence to achieve its ends, and there is no rational end to the use of violence, states grow until they destroy civilized interactions through the corruption of money, contracts, honesty, family and self-reliance. No state in...
Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of main...
The creators of the Constitution were not purple-robed scholars, sitting in their ivory towers attempting to put abstract theories into play, but men who had come to realize that their system of government was broken. These men desired desperately to...
I was always accused of being too stiff. In 1974, when I ran my first primary race for state rep, I was chief aide to the speaker of the House, I knew the issues and understood state government. But what I found out the hard way is that you can know ...
I come from the state of Michigan. We were the first English-speaking government in the world to outlaw the death penalty, back in the 1840s. We have never had, as a state, the death penalty in Michigan. I was raised with that, and even Republicans i...
Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right...
Our founders insisted that protecting the states' power to govern themselves was vital to limit the power of Washington and preserve freedom.
If the federal government won't secure the border, the State of Arizona will step in to complement federal efforts in a constitutional manner and protect the security of its citizens.
I would like to state that my personal opinions are that the people of every country should decide by themselves what kind of government they want.
Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.
Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
