Political Quotes

Doug Burgum

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U.S. Secretary of the Interior in the Trump administration; formerly Governor of North Dakota (2016–2024).

Quotes by year · 20172026130 total · peak 2025 (51)
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Jun 29, 2024

I think he answered the question. I think the real question is, if President Trump wins in the fall, which it looks like he will, will Joe Biden and the Democrats accept the results?

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Jun 29, 2024

President Trump, after his strong debate performance on Thursday, where he was going in the polls before that, what this is doing for his fundraising, the strong performance he has, he's got so many good choices that he can pick for this…

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Jun 29, 2024

What undermines the faith in democracy, and we've seen in the polls, people trust President Trump more than Biden on democracy right now.

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Jun 29, 2024

The idea that this is a threat to democracy, as a governor in North Dakota today, I've been living under what I call the Biden dictatorship because of all the rules and regulations.

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Jun 20, 2024

I wish every American could see President Trump the way we've seen in the last six months. He's genuinely exceedingly funny, but as you know, Jesse, the best comics are really smart people, highly intelligent and highly perceptive and they…

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Jun 2, 2024

Well, I think what's sad for America is the whole weaponization of the system and what we're going to see more of this.

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May 13, 2024

Americans care more about their grocery bills than what's happening in that courtroom behind us.

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May 13, 2024

When you've got a judge that donated to Joe Biden, when you've got prosecutors that supported Joe Biden, when you've got the judge's family members that are benefiting financially, as Democrat operatives.

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May 13, 2024

In the world where I came from, business, you know, this would have been a non-material classification error. At best, it might have been tried as a misdemeanor.

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May 12, 2024

Working with President Trump as a governor was like having a beautiful breeze at your back.

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Aug 19, 2023

Well, again, Chuck, the voters get to decide who runs for office in America. And whether it's a local election or whether it's a state or federal, the voters are the ones that ultimately get to decide. And again, if we're going to live in…

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Aug 19, 2023

If I'm just one more pundit criticizing everything that's gone on in 2020, no one's going to see that there's leadership there.

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Aug 19, 2023

Leadership is about solving problems. Leadership is about character and integrity. Leadership is about bringing out the best of people. It's about respect for others that have views different than you.

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Aug 19, 2023

We're running to improve every American life. We're running to bring out the best of America. And we're going to do that by focusing on economy, energy, and national security. And these are things that matter to every American.

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Jul 8, 2023

I believe in states' rights, and I believe that the president of the United States has got a defined set of things they're supposed to work on, and it's not every culture war topic.

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Jul 8, 2023

I believe that the president of the United States has got a defined set of things they’re supposed to work on and it’s not every culture war topic.

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Jul 8, 2023

We should be the freedom and liberty party and we should believe in the states' rights party.

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Jul 8, 2023

We need a president that's focused on the challenges that we're being faced as a nation, not – not a president that's going to decide whether a book is in the right section or not in a library in a small town somewhere in America.

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Jul 8, 2023

It's supposed to bring people together. It's supposed to paint a vision about a powerful, positive future. And somehow we've gone astray on that, where the presidency has also become hyper-partisan, no matter which party is in office.

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Jul 8, 2023

If we can unleash the best of America, if we can get our economy sprinting instead of crawling, that lifts the boat for everybody.

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Jul 8, 2023

We will present ourselves, when we get to next January and next February when the voting starts, is that we have the best chance of beating Joe Biden.

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Jul 8, 2023

We have to win the war in Ukraine.

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Jul 8, 2023

I think he's running a large criminal organization.

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Jul 8, 2023

The states created the federal government, not the other way around.

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Jul 8, 2023

Absolutely. They were completely -- dependent on Russian oil and gas.

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