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.
Doug Burgum
The Public Record
U.S. Secretary of the Interior in the Trump administration; formerly Governor of North Dakota (2016–2024).
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…
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.
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.
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?
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.
We should be the freedom and liberty party and we should believe in the states' rights party.
If we can unleash the best of America, if we can get our economy sprinting instead of crawling, that lifts the boat for everybody.
I support the Dobbs decision, and this is the decision that should be left to the states.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.





