Federal government has forced a one-size-fits-all model on our education system.

We don't want Arizona to be dependent on the whims of Barack Obama and the federal government.

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

The federal government has invested billions in Metro, yet the system is not safe and is not reliable.

I don't bow down to the federal government.