Doug Burgum in 2018 Governor's State of the State speeches

On Education: Local control of schools

This is about bottoms-up innovation. This is not top-down Washington DC decides, or Bismarck decides. This is each individual school district can adopt an innovation plan and they can decide locally what they think the best way to try to drive education, you know, hands on, experience based education in their areas. To get out and really understand more about how we can make that happen we have created a K-12 task force. Source: 2018 North Dakota State of the State address Jan 23, 2018

On Energy & Oil: On energy, all of the above

We have an approach in our state, which is all of the above. So we're supporting oil and gas. We're supporting coal. We're supporting wind. Oil and gas, obviously, most of that, a lot of that's going towards transportation fuels. As the renewable continues to grow and grow, at a low variable cost, those dynamics put pressure on the economics between those two. We have to continue to sort that out as we go forward. Source: 2018 North Dakota State of the State address Jan 23, 2018

On Homeland Security: Need strong deterrent against rogue nations

The Minot Air Force Base, it's not only critical to our local economy in a time where we still have unfortunately global tensions and potentially global nuclear tensions which are again an unthinkable thing that I thought I could maybe quit thinking about from the 60's and 70's when we were kids and doing the drills. It's very important for our country and for all freedom loving people everywhere that we have a strong deterrent when we have rogue nations that are threatening nuclear activity. Source: 2018 North Dakota State of the State address Jan 23, 2018

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