Federal Government Quotes - Page 18

I'm proud of having been one of the first to recognize that states and the federal government have a duty to protect our natural resources from the damaging effects of pollution that can accompany industrial development.

Ronald Reagan

Government, Development, Proud

United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.

Mark Kirk

Moving, Government, Burning

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We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.

David Dinkins

Government, Ties, Guarantees

PBS interview, www.thirteen.org.

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The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, bio-technology industries that will create the millions of new jobs.

Joe Lieberman

Jobs, Technology, Government

Joe Lieberman at Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at Private University in New York City, New York, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2003.

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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.

Clarence Thomas

Government, Politics, Congress

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Oftentimes when you have the federal government or others step in and start to raise minimum wage, what happens is you take away or reduce some people's opportunity to grab the bottom rung of the economic ladder to get the opportunities and the skills that you need to move up that economic ladder.

Kevin Madden

Moving, Opportunity, Skills

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

Nikki Haley

Government, Trying, Way

"Gov. Haley: 'We need a person that's going to go show courage ... Mitt Romney is the person to do it'". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.

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

Evan Wolfson

Government, Program, States

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And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene.

John Breaux

Thinking, Government, Play

"CNN Live Today" with Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. January 3, 2002.

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...because there are no local or State boundaries to the problems of our environment, the Federal Government must play an active, positive role. We can and will set standards. We can and will exercise leadership.

Richard M. Nixon

Exercise, Government, Play

Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.93, Best Books on

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

Kim Campbell

Government, Levels, Right Now

Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading of the general welfare and commerce clauses of the Constitution has the federal government been allowed to overreach its authority and extend its tendrils into every corner of civil society.

Ed Crane

Government, Constitution, Welfare

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The new puritans have been highly successful. All of the preconditions for new prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco are in place. ... Indeed, the future agenda of the federal government has already been established to outlaw alcohol and tobacco in the near future. ... If current trends persist, America will be moving toward stricter prohibitions, greater restrictions, and more centralized control over consumption. This represents an erosion of liberty at its most fundamental level.

Mark Thornton

Moving, Successful, America

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Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

Ron Paul

School, Government, Parent

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To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government. . . The individual sovereignty of our states must first be destroyed.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Government, Democracy, Liberty

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I would absolutely never use the federal government to enforce the law of using marijuana

Ron Paul

Marijuana, Government, Law

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It is a travesty, in my mind, for the state and local governments on the one hand to expect the Federal government to reimburse them for costs attributable to illegal immigrants, when on the other hand the State and local governments prohibit their own law enforcement and other officials from cooperating with the Immigration and Naturalization Service to locate or apprehend or expel illegal aliens.

Alan K. Simpson

Government, Hands, Law

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Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.

Tom Udall

Government, Uranium Mining, Trying

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President Obama's reckless defense cuts that are hanging over our cloud, hanging over the horizon could put almost 44,000 jobs at stake right here in Pennsylvania. we are not going to let that happen. You know why? Because No. 1, national defense is the first priority of the federal government.

Paul Ryan

Jobs, Cutting, Clouds

"Ryan: Happy to cling to guns, religion" by Juana Summers, www.politico.com. August 21, 2012.

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If you work for the federal government, the average salary is $7,000 higher than the private sector. Something's wrong with that, when you're making more money working for the government than you can working in the private sector.

Jesse Ventura

Government, Average, Salary

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In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.

John Sergeant Wise

Government, Virginia, Years

John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.68, Anza Publishing

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Based on my experience as a prosecutor in Miami, illegal immigration is one of the most critical issues facing this country. As a prosecutor, I felt the burden of it. I think what's important... is for the state and the federal government and for local governments to work together to do everything possible to control illegal immigration in a comprehensive way.

Janet Reno

Country, Thinking, Government

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It is true that liberty is not free, nor is it easy. But tyranny - even varying degrees of it - is much more difficult, and much more expensive. The time has come to rein in the federal government, put it on a crash diet, and let the people keep their money and their liberty.

Ron Paul

Government, People, Liberty

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What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and unaccountable force. It is the nation’s largest creditor, debtor, lender, employer, consumer, contractor, grantor, property owner, tenant, insurer, health-care provider, and pension guarantor. Moreover, with aggrandized police powers, what it does not control directly it bans or mandates by regulation.

Mark Levin

Government, Police, Debtors

"The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic". Book by Mark Levin, August 13, 2013.

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The Seventeenth Amendment serves not the public's interest but the interests of the governing masterminds and their disciples. Its early proponents advanced it not because they championed 'democracy' or the individual, but because they knew it would be one of several important mechanisms for empowering the federal government and unraveling constitutional republicanism.

Mark Levin

Government, Empowering, Important

Mark R. Levin (2013). “The Liberty Amendments”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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