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We have become bound by a political straitjacket that frames every debate: Too much federal government. Yet our forefathers forged this system for us. The federal government can accomplish what the states, acting alone or even in concert, cannot.

— Donna Brazile

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We actually do need a federal government, but we need a limited one.

— Ron Johnson

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.

— Stacey Dash

If you have a federal government that's not enforcing the law and does not preserve the integrity of its own borders, then naturally, states are going to take matters into their own hands.

— Pat Toomey

The federal government is far larger than the Founding Fathers ever intended it to be. We have racked up over $16 trillion of debt through wasteful spending, and it is time that we cut that waste and start reducing the size of our government.

— Matt Salmon

We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.

— Grover Norquist

Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.

— Bob Barr

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.

— Pete Sessions

The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.

— James K. Polk

✗Opposing Perspectives

It is not questioned that the Federal Government is one of limited powers. Its powers are such, and such only, as are expressly granted in the Constitution or are properly incident to the expressly granted powers and necessary to their execution.

— James K. Polk

We should have a very limited federal government.

— Paul Broun