Michael Franc Quotes

You look at the relationship between 50 state sovereigns and the federal government, and the states always come out on the short end of the stick. They've consistently traded autonomy for cash, and they've consistently wound up with neither.

- Michael Franc

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My guess is this is not a time when anyone is looking at a zero-sum game between one state or another. - Michael Franc

That has created a chilling effect on the desire to move an ambitious, comprehensive agenda and may deter Republicans from engaging in a fundamental health care reform debate or tax reform debate. - Michael Franc

What you have here is a unique opportunity where the entire infrastructure of a pretty big region was decimated -- both the social infrastructure and the economic one. - Michael Franc