Federal Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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 the role of the Federal Reserve is enormously exaggerated.

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.

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

No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public reputation.

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?

There is a European Central Bank, of course, established and it has the structure similar to the Federal Reserve system, not precisely the same but similar.

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

Well, the chairman of Federal Reserve just made his move to rescue Barack Obama. We're gonna have QE3. We're gonna print some more money.

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.

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.

There's no hidden secrets going on in the Federal Reserve...

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.

Our focus is on ensuring America has the strongest economy in the world for the next 100 years and to do that, we need to get to the role of the Federal Reserve and we need to get it right.

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.

Prices are going up. Unemployment is continue to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system.

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

I am the federal government!

Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country

America is now a socialist economy. The definition of a socialist economy is when 50% or more of your economy is dependent on the federal government.

Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure.

I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues in this campaign. In my opinion it is the most direct and effective contribution that Government can make to business.

We have a balance of $ .32 in the bank . . . Which makes us four-and-a-half trillion dollars richer than the federal government.

American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas.

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

Roll back federal spending to 2008 levels.

There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.

It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance on the excesses of the federal government.

Disaster management should be coordinated by the federal government, .. It is our exact responsibility.