“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.”— Louis D. Brandeis
“I believe that the federal government is incompetent to do most of the things that it is now trying to do.”— James L. Buckley
“What we want is a Canadian common market, but a common market with a political superstructure which is not based on the principle of centralization.”— Robert Bourassa
“The federal government has no right to interfere with the domestic institutions of the states.”— Joseph E. Brown
“I believe that the federal government is a partnership with the states, and that there are things that states do better and things that the federal government does better.”— Daniel Akaka
“We believe that the government of the United States is a government of limited and delegated powers, and that the States are sovereign in all matters not expressly ceded to the central authority.”— Francis Bowen
“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.”— Louis Dembitz Brandeis
“I think it is wrong for the federal government to be involved in education. It should be a local issue.”— Ken Buck
“It is possible to be a sovereigntist in Quebec and a federalist in the rest of Canada.”— Gilles Duceppe
“It is one of the unhappy incidents of the federal system that a self-righteous Supreme Court, in performing its duties, has overturned the decisions of states' lawmakers.”— William Rehnquist