Doug Burgum Quotes

Doug Burgum

Profession : Politician

Birth : August 1, 1956

My dad died when I was a freshman in high school. I got a little bit of farmland.

Doug Burgum

People are yearning for leadership, and leadership to them does not mean a life spent as a career politician in North Dakota. It means someone who's got the characteristics of integrity and honesty. Someone you can trust and someone who's willing to take risks, someone who can take a leap and not know where they're going to land.

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There is a bit of, I think, geographic bigotry that actually exists in our country, where people that haven't been to places, they assume that we're still, you know, plowing fields with horses or something.

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My mom loved duck hunting and pheasant hunting. The first gun I had was an Ithaca 16-gauge shotgun that came down from her.

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I'm not even that interested in politics. But I am interested in service and I'm interested in solutions and I'm interested in solving the hard problems that are facing our country.

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If you are like me, you love freedom and love individual responsibility and all the things that our country stands for, all the things that our nation has fought for.

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North Dakota is already an energy and ag powerhouse, and we're excited to build on our reputation as states that feed and fuel the world with environmental stewardship and a focus on innovation over regulation to meet our nation's evolving energy needs.

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We talk about federalism as 50 cauldrons of democracy but think it is really 50 platforms in the nation and each state has a way to innovate and learn and best practice from each other.

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DAPL is an essential part of North Dakota's and the nation's energy infrastructure. It plays a pivotal role in ensuring energy security and affordability for the entire nation while providing enormous positive economic impact that touches every North Dakota citizen.

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Working together, we can identify best practices and policies for retaining and recruiting teachers and ensure they have the resources and support they need to deliver a world-class education to students across North Dakota.

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In North Dakota, the ability to waive hours of service quickly during an emergency without having to slog through a sea of bureaucratic red tape can literally mean the difference between life and death or the loss of someone's livelihood.

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North Dakota heavily depends on CDL drivers, and as a rural state, it is critical that we be able to move products and get resources to where they are needed most.

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The more than 50,000 veterans in North Dakota and the more than 16 million veterans across our great country deserve our deepest gratitude and support on Veterans Day - and every day - for their courageous service in defending our freedoms and protecting our nation and its citizens at home and abroad.

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My hometown, Arthur, N.D., is a small farming community where woke was something you did at 5 A.M.

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After earning an M.B.A. from Stanford and working for a short time in Chicago at McKinsey & Co., I moved back home in 1983 and literally bet the farm to provide the seed capital for a startup, which we grew into a world-class company, Great Plains Software.

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If you're going to launch a tech company in North Dakota, you need to be willing to go against the grain and reimagine what's possible.

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When I ran for governor in 2016, we shook up the political establishment - then cut more than a billion dollars in spending, balanced the budget, unleashed energy production, and diversified the economy.

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I'll never be a senator. I'll never be a congressman.

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When we empower American innovation and energy production, we strengthen the value of the dollar, stop China and Iran, and prevent wars such as Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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We need to embrace innovation over regulation to solve the challenges of the 21st century.

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