Federal Government Quotes - Page 10

• 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.

  Amity Shlaes

  Government, Growth, Want

  Source: www.mikechurch.com

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• Today many politicians suggest that where the federal government does not act, there must be anarchy. That view is odd, blinkering out the work of state and towns, which until recently did much of our charitable and cultural work. That view also blinkers out the role of mutual societies and churches.

  Amity Shlaes

  Government, Views, Church

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• During the whole month that negroes were being beaten by police and washed down the sewer with water hoses, Kennedy and - and King was in jail begging for the federal government to intervene, Kennedy's reply was, "No federal statutes have been violated." And it was only when the negroes erupted that Kennedy come on the television with all his old pretty words.

  Malcolm X

  Kings, Jail, Government

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• The federal government and our democracy is not a speedboat. It's an oceanliner, as I discovered when I came into office. It took a lot of really hard work for us to make significant policy changes, even in our first two years, when we had larger majorities than Mr. Trump will enjoy when he comes into office.

  Barack Obama

  Hard Work, Government, Years

  "President Barack Obama Holds a News Conference". ye.usembassy.gov. November 14, 2016.

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• I am going to be able to present to the incoming administration a country that is stronger. A federal government that is working better and more efficiently. A national security apparatus that is both more effective and truer to our values. Energy policies that are resulting in not just less pollution, but also more jobs.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Jobs, Government

  Source: time.com

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• Most of the federal government could be shut down.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Government

  Source: thestagblog.com

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• It also comes down to parenting. It is important to know what your beliefs are, and that you have to stand up for them or you don't really believe in them. You know, my father and mother - in fact, every member of my immediate family - have worked for the federal government. Sometimes misunderstood is that I didn't stand up to overthrow the system.

  Edward Snowden

  Mother, Father, Believe

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government, and I'm here to help."

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Helping, Language

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• When the civil rights community raised a lot of concerns around the nomination of Mr. Sessions, Senator Sessions, one of the things was that he`s on record of saying things intrusive, like voting rights,that he doesn`t believe the federal government should interfere with local policing, almost like states` rights kind of rhetoric.

  Al Sharpton

  Believe, Government, Rights

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Medicaid is one of the rare times where Democratic governors are saying, "Hey, states' rights." We don't want the federal government coming in and telling us how to do our environmental remediation or how we're going to do our healthcare.

  John Hickenlooper

  Government, Rights, Environmental

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Let the Democrates go on making its case for more government control over every aspect of our lives. More taxes to pay. More debt to carry. More rules to follow. More judges who just make it up as they go along. We Republicans, we are committed to a federal government that acts again as a servant accountable to the people, following the constitution, and venturing not one inch beyond the consent of the governed. We, we in this party, offer a better way for our country based on fundamentals that go back to the founding generation.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Party, Government

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When I started to get involved in the crime issue, people said, "it's a local issue." I said, "No, there are lots of ways the federal government can help." And the best way the federal government can help, and did in the Crime Bill, is to find programs that work around the country and help them spread.

  Charles Schumer

  Country, Issues, Government

  Source: www.questia.com

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• We will never meet our own expectations of public education unless the federal government is willing to play a consistent, long-term role; unless education truly becomes a matter of national policy, not just a matter of national rhetoric.

  Carly Fiorina

  Government, Play, Long

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Since I've been in the Senate, is that my work with people like Tom Coburn on opening up transparency in government, making sure that every dollar the federal government spends that's out there - that that's all posted on a searchable database on the Internet.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Opening Up, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• If you're a progressive, you've got to be worried about how the federal government is spending its revenue, because we don't have enough money to spend on things like early childhood education that are so important.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Childhood, Important

  Source: www.politico.com

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• 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.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Government, America, Balance

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In the war on drugs, state and state law enforcement agencies have been rewarded in cash by the federal government - through programs like the Edward Byrne Memorial Grant program - for the sheer numbers of people arrested for drug offenses.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Numbers, Agency

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The problem is we have a Wall Street-to-Washington access of power that has controlled the political climate. The donor class feeds the political class who does the dance that the donor class wants. And the result is federal government keeps getting bigger.

  Mike Huckabee

  Wall, Government, Class

  Mike Huckabee at GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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

  Neal Boortz

  Government, Important, Should

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• 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.

  Jean-Claude Trichet

  Government, Texas, United States

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• The states have authority to interpret the Constitution, enforce it, and protect the people from violations of it by the federal government In the first place, there is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution, or which gives them any greater latitude in this respect than may be claimed by the courts of every State.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Law, Government, Giving

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

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Government, Enemy, Motive

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

  Bruce Fein

  Unique, Government, Arms

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• We are at a crossroads over how the federal government in Washington and state legislatures and city councils across the land allocate their financial resources. Which fork we take will say a lot about Americans and our values.

  George McGovern

  Government, Land, Cities

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

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Ends, Taxpayers

  1980 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 17 July 1980, Detroit, MI

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