I Remind You

I just get sick and tired, quite frankly, of all this talk.  Everything that has to do with the federal branch of government … is bad, and states are good.  I remind you that … the reason the federal government got into 90% of the business it got into is that the state[s]…  did not do the job.
—    Vice-President Joseph “Joe” Biden (then Senator Biden of Delaware)
A member of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1981 at the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Sandra Day O’Connor
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