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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 · 2017–2026144 total · peak 2026 (58)
2017: 1 quote2020: 1 quote2023: 18 quotes2024: 15 quotes2025: 51 quotes2026: 58 quotes
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

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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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

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

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Jul 8, 2023

If there is any kind of litmus test, it's are they going to follow the Constitution and follow the law, and not legislate from the bench?

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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

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

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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

We have to win the war in Ukraine.

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Jul 8, 2023

It's not up to the pundits, it's up to the voters.

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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

I think he's running a large criminal organization.

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Jul 8, 2023

I support the Dobbs decision, and this is the decision that should be left to the states.

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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

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 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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May 25, 2020

If someone is wearing a mask, they're not doing it to represent what political party they're in or what candidates they support. They might be doing it because they have got a five-year-old child who has been going through cancer…

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Mar 7, 2017

A community's horizontal, low density expansion often results in a geographic footprint that is increasingly expensive over time, even to the point of becoming economically unsustainable.

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