Federal Government Quotes - Page 12

• If the federal government has the exclusive right to judge the extent of its own powers, warned the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions' authors (James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, respectively), it will continue to grow - regardless of elections, the separation of powers, and other much-touted limits on government power.

  Thomas Woods

  Government, Kentucky, Virginia

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• It's a whole different attitude toward public service than it once was. I tell you, we can all sit around in our old age and moan about it, but I think the administrative processes and the management effectiveness of the federal government are terrible!

  Paul Volcker

  Attitude, Thinking, Government

  Interview with Gary H. Stern, www.minneapolisfed.org. September 1, 2009.

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• The federal government is our servant, not our master.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Masters, Servant

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• The federal government overrules state laws where state laws permit medicinal marijuana for people dying of cancer. The federal government goes in and arrests these people, put them in prison with mandatory, sometimes life sentences. This war on drugs is totally out of control. If you want to regulate cigarettes and alcohol and drugs, it should be at the state level.

  Ron Paul

  Cancer, War, Marijuana

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Indicate which principles you support regarding affirmative action and discrimination. 1. The federal government should discontinue affirmative action programs. 2. The federal government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the public sector. 3. The federal government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the private sector.

  Newt Gingrich

  Government, Support, Principles

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• The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better than the private sector will spend it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Government, Private Sector

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• What the USA Freedom Act did is it did two things. Number one, it ended the federal government's bulk collection of phone metadata of millions of law-abiding citizens.

  Ted Cruz

  Phones, Government, Law

  CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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

  Rich Lowry

  Government, Trying, Immigration

  "Feds Have Failed on Immigration" by Rich Lowry, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 27, 2010.

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• The federal government... announced a plan to spend, like, a trillion of taxpayer dollars to buy out bad mortgages and debt. Wall Street was surprisingly enthusiastic about the plan to save their (butts) with other peoples' money. It was either that, or Sarah Palin's idea to sell it all on eBay.

  Bill Maher

  Wall, Government, Ebay

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• The AMA is urging the Federal Government not to classify marijuana as a dangerous drug and do more research. That's what they said. It's a big story, yeah. Yeah, that request came not only from the AMA but also from KFC.

  Conan O'Brien

  Marijuana, Kfc, Government

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• Just look at that Forbes 400. Takes a billion three to get on the Forbes 400 this year. And the aggregate wealth is just staggering. And those people are paying less percentage of their total income to the federal government than their receptionists are. [...] I'll bet a million dollars against any member of the Forbes 400 who challenges - me that the average for the Forbes 400 will be less than the average of their receptionists.

  Warren Buffett

  Government, Average, Years

  Interview with Tom Brokaw, www.cnbc.com. October 31, 2007.

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• READILY and, I trust, feelingly acknowledge the duty incumbent on us all . . . to provide for those who, in the mysterious order of Providence, are subject to want and to disease of body or mind; but I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States . . . .

  Franklin Pierce

  Government, Order, Mind

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• Information is Power. Think For Yourself. CAUTION: proper use of the brain is not endorsed by federal governments nor huge corporations involved in serious financial profit from a brainwashed and enslaved population. Mild discomfort may occur as confusing independent thought challenges popular views of the world.

  Timothy Leary

  Independent, Thinking, Information Is Power

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

  Garry Breitkreuz

  Government, Criminals, Benefits

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

  Carly Fiorina

  Moving, Government, Reform

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• Does the U.S. Constitution stand for anything in an era of government excess? Can that founding document, which is supposed to restrain the power and reach of a centralized federal government, slow down the juggernaut of czars, health insurance overhaul and anything else this administration and Congress wish to do that is not in the Constitution?

  Cal Thomas

  Government, Wish, Doe

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• Perhaps sensing the dismal failure of its efforts to show that 'established by the State' means 'established by the State or the Federal Government,' the Court tries to palm off the pertinent statutory phrase as "inartful drafting.' This Court, however, has no free-floating power 'to rescue Congress from its drafting errors.'

  Antonin Scalia

  Mean, Errors, Government

  Antonin Scalia (2016). “Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents”, p.239, Regnery Publishing

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• ...[the federal] government [has no authority] to deliver a service,...and there's no evidence to show that government has ever been efficient [at] delivering...service.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Authority, Evidence

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• The worst thing the federal government could do is to increase the size, reach and cost of government. If government failed in its response to the hurricane, the answer is not more inefficient government.

  Cal Thomas

  Government, Cost, Answers

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• The federal government views the Constitution as its enemy.

  Andrew Napolitano

  Views, Government, Enemy

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• For Social Security to be financially sound, the federal government should have $100 trillion - a sum of money six-and-a-half times the size of our entire economy - in the bank and earning interest right now. But it doesn't. And while many believe that Social Security represents our greatest entitlement problem, Medicare is six times larger in terms of unfunded obligations.

  John C. Goodman

  Believe, Government, Should Have

  "A Prescription for American Health Care". imprimis.hillsdale.edu. March 2009.

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• The federal government has made explicit and implicit promises to millions of people, but has put no money aside in order to keep those promises. Some of you may wonder where Bernie Madoff got the idea for his Ponzi scheme. Clearly he was studying federal entitlement policy.

  John C. Goodman

  Government, Order, Ideas

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• In explaining the Constitution, James Madison, the acknowledged father of the Constitution, wrote in Federalist Paper 45: 'The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peach, negotiation, and foreign commerce.' Has the Constitution been amended to permit Congress to tax, spend and regulate as it pleases or have Americans said, 'To hell with the Constitution'?

  Walter E. Williams

  Father, War, Government

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• One third of the $15 trillion of mortgages in existence in 2008 are owned, or securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae, the Federal Housing and the Veterans Administration. Wall Street buyers of repackaged loans didn't mind buying risky paper because they assumed that they would be guaranteed by the federal government: read bailout from the taxpayers. Today's housing mess can be laid directly at the feet of Congress and the White House.

  Walter E. Williams

  Wall, White, Feet

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.47, Hoover Institution Press

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• Controlling the interpretation of the Constitution is vital to the leftist agenda of expanding the federal government's power. That means keeping the federal judiciary as liberal as possible and treating the U.S. Supreme Court's liberal legacy as sacrosanct.

  Joseph Sobran

  Mean, Government, Legacy

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