Federal Government Quotes

In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government

Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers - and not to tell you about it.

The American people and American businesses are looking to the federal government to lead our nation on the path to economic recovery. It is time to stop splitting hairs. It is time to act.

If we don't get this economy going, the numbers that represent this stimulus package are going to be small compared to the loss of revenue to the federal government for our economy.

71 percent of the American people think that the federal government should take no more than 20 percent of anybody's paycheck no matter how much they make.

I think we need to make sure that we are putting Social Security on a sustainable path. It's absolutely something that the federal government is going to be involved in, in the future.

I wouldn't want the federal government dictating how I use my cameras, every community has their own issues and their own dynamics.

There are a lot of things that are done in the federal government that are done because Washington did them.

Quebecers have rarely in their history been better represented than they are right now - at the highest levels of the federal government.

There is so much chaos and dysfunction going on with the federal government that Dallas can't wait any longer for federal help.

The federal government has never been known for its sense of humor.

The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.

Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but they also should have the right to fail.

We had Americans gather together in prayer, before they went to stand before the federal government ... that prayed for peace, that there wouldn't be confrontation.

I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the publics trust.

I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.

I don't like to have the federal government start pushing its weight deeper and deeper into our schools. Let the states and localities do that.

The federal government should be less important in our lives, not more.

We should have a very limited federal government.

The federal government is basically an insurance company with an army.

Child support should do just that - support children, not the federal government.

I want to bring accountability to the federal government. I want the federal government to respect the states.

The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.

Arizona seeks only to enforce the nominal immigration policy of the United States. Perhaps the federal government should try it sometime.

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.

It's time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government.

I don't think the federal government or federal candidates should be making decisions on everything and opining on everything.

Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education.

Every dollar the federal government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us, will make our economy stronger, our lives more abundant, our future more free.

We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government.

There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector.

You cannot keep your plan and have Obamacare at the same time. Obamacare, by definition, gets rid of your plan and replaces it with health care run by the federal government.

Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic.

Unreason is now ascendant in the United States—in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government.

There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.

[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government.

America has got the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in.

I'm just not sure I trust the federal government not to trample on civil liberties.

We have provided capital here with a couple of institutions recently. The Federal government did that in the '30s for the RFC and I think there could well be a proper role for government in that.

Even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.

The federal government's most useful role is not to rush into a program of excessive increases in public expenditures, but to expand the incentives and opportunities for private expenditures.

As a libertarian I believe we should have a federal government simple and circumscribed enough to be run by an average, dull, normal American. With George W. Bush we have half the equation in place.

[The US] budget is dominated by the retirement programs, Social Security and Medicare - loosely speaking, the post-cold-war federal government is a big pension fund that also happens to have an army.

I think, traditionally, when the federal government has gathered statistics, it's been done in silos, so every agency really focuses on the statistics that are important to agency.

There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime. That is not an exaggeration.

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