Federal Government Quotes

With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem.

The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.

The fact that the federal government is the nation's greatest environmental villain has not stopped activists from reflexively turning to politicians to “protect the environment.”

But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined.

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

Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.

In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.

Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.

In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.

Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.

I think the federal government really should be supporting Louisiana and ensuring that every person from that area has an opportunity to vote on what will occur in the area.

If you believe that the job of the federal government is to secure this country, it's really important for you to understand that success in Iraq is part of securing the country.

After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America.

But I do know this: that the two and a half years that I've been at HUD, I am absolutely convinced that some of the best workers in the world are in Federal Government.

Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.

I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.

My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.

Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding.

If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.

What the federal government does basically is borrow money from people and mail it to people.

We [Federal Government] have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

So you know, I think that the federal government, the Democrats, and President Obama are selling a lot of hope and change, but no delivery of any of those promises.

Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.

Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.

Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail.

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

Once the federal government has control of your health care, that means they can dictate your behavior.

The reason that the unions and the other stakeholders have not cut a deal with the automakers is because they believe the federal government is going to bail them out.

The fact of the matter is that hope comes from many sources. I think depending on the federal government to be some sort of a savior is false hope.

We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.

The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.

I think there are steps that can be taken that haven't been required or energy to make that fight more secure and we are going to continue to push the federal government to do that.

The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.

I think it's important to remember that the court itself, the federal government itself belongs to the American people.

It has been observed, [that for the federal government] to coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised.

It's the federal government's job to secure the border.

I tell people view the federal government as a source of entertainment. It's a lot easier.

Your federal government needs your money so that it can perform vital services for you that you would not think up yourself in a million years.

Perhaps Americans should recognize that if they want to keep their privacy, they should ask the federal government to do only the things that the Constitution allows.

The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.

Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.

The [EU] Council of Ministers will have far more power over the budgets of member states than the federal government in the United States has over the budget of Texas.

The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.

Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.

Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T.

People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.

I'm saying the federal government is taking away the freedom of Americans to make choices.