Federal Quotes

If the exercise of power of internal taxation by the Union should be discovered on experiment to be really inconvenient, the federal government may then forbear the use of it . . .

Coolidge really hated government being in the power business. He thought it was wrong. He saw the potential for growth in the power business. He didn't want the federal government in it.

Our environment is too important to neglect and it's time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises.

My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government.

Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.

...the Federal Reserve has the capacity to operate in domestic money markets to maintain interest rates at a level consistent with our economic goals

I think I understand the Constitution a little bit because in 1971 we went off the gold standard under President Nixon into the Federal Reserve notes because we were a worldwide currency.

I'm pro-life but I believe that the federal government ought to stay out of it. That's a decision that the people of each state ought to make for themselves.

The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.

The federal government can't remodel every firehouse and buy every new policeradio in the name of Homeland Security.

Mission creep is not unique to Congress. It is endemic to all arms of the federal government.

We must move from revenue-neutral to revenue-reducing tax reform, because the federal government spends far too much money.

Californians are worried about whether they will have a job along with ballooning federal spending and deficits.

This president [Barack Obama ] has seen personnel records of people who have sacrificed for the American people and for the federal government stolen by the Chinese and he's done nothing in return.

We do need the federal government to share information with us. We need local governments to increase supply. We need affordable places for people to live.

The New York Federal Reserve is a tool of the big banks.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

Aside from the poor example it sets, the federal government enables reckless spending on public-employee pensions by offering hope of assistance from Washington if things get bad enough.

When it comes to federal programs, even if states are discriminating, the federal government should not.

We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy.

The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.

In the 1950s, buggery was a criminal offence. Now it's a requirement to receive benefits from the federal government.

Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.

Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again.

I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

There is no entity in the world that controls our lives more than the Federal Reserve System

I think it would be interesting to know about the Federal Reserve. I think we should audit the Federal Reserve - it's taxpayer's money that's being used there.

We can only imagine what would happen to our health care and to the quality of our health care here in North Dakota if we took the federal government out of health care.

It is the policy of the federal government to use all resources at its disposal to make our financial system stronger.

Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about.

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

[Police chiefs ] want support, they want more training, they want more assistance. And I think the federal government could be in a position where we would offer and provide that.

When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it.

The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.

If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization, or association which lobbies the federal government.

The powers of the federal government ... result from the compact to which the states are parties, [and are] limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact.

I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's not wishful thinking.

Texas has done a very good job of securing their borders with the help of the federal government. California has done a good job.

The role of the federal government, if any, is to create more school choice.

I don't believe the federal government should be involved in the creation of standards directly or indirectly, the creation of curriculum or content. It is clearly a state responsibility.

The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology.

Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.

Not federal government's job to do good deeds.

Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life never anticipated by the founders.

The Federal Government is the people and the budget is a reflection of their need.

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.

I believe that the federal government should be laying down broadband like Eisenhower laid down interstates.

Almost every aspect of its (Federal Reserve) history should be approached with a discriminating disregard for what is commonly taught or believed.