Federal Government Quotes - Page 20

• As Americans we must always remember that we all have a common enemy, an enemy that is dangerous, powerful, and relentless. I refer, of course, to the federal government.

  Dave Barry

  Powerful, Government, Enemy

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• There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.

  Ted Nugent

  Government, Monsters, Audacity

  "Ted Nugent Calls Himself 'A Black Jew at Nazi-Klan Rally,' Stands by Obama Beheading Statement" by Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 18, 2012.

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• Oklahoma City bombing was done on purpose. Did you know the Federal Government blew up their own building to blame it on the militias and to get rid of some people that weren't cooperating with the system?

  Kent Hovind

  Oklahoma City, Government, Cities

  "Evolution: the Foundation for Communism, Nazism, Socialism, and the New World Order". Book by Kent Hovind, 2003.

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• The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the unrestrained will of the majority, with force, threats, and intimidation being the order of the day. Today's federal government is considerably at odds with that envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. ... [The War] also laid to rest the great principle enunciated in the Declaration of Independence that 'Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed'.

  Walter E. Williams

  War, Men, America

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• And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government.

  Alphonso Jackson

  Stress, Opportunity, Race

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• In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history.

  Allen Weinstein

  Rights, Government, Citizens

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• The Commission agrees that the federal government should help alleviate these costs. The best way to do so is to reduce illegal immigration.... We recommend immediate reimbursement of criminal justice costs, because these conditions can now be met, but we urge further study of the costs of health care and education before impact aid is provided.

  Barbara Jordan

  Impact, Government, Justice

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• You will never meet anyone who admires the American founders more than I do, but they were human, they made mistakes. Perhaps their worst was that their Bill of Rights stops at the border. Inside the US, the federal government has been limited. Beyond the borders, the government has been able to do anything it wanted.

  Richard J. Maybury

  Freedom, Mistake, Rights

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• It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial debacle. After all, they and their predecessors engineered the approaching tsunami. As the situation becomes direr, the federal government's actions will grow more oppressive.

  Mark Levin

  Believe, Government, Congress And The President

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• I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Government, Political

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.404

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• It's time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government.

  Rick Perry

  Believe, Government, Shackles

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast
  expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result.
  There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social
  programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty,
  drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Marriage, Pregnancy, School

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• The idea that the United States can't guard its own border is silly. It's a sign that were not serious about this...people who legally shouldn't be here. When the state is forced to take care of them - for example, if they have an illegal alien in their prison - the federal government should pay for it. If Washington has to pay for it, Washington's going to more rapidly understand why we have to take some necessary steps.

  Newt Gingrich

  Silly, Government, Ideas

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• How can you raise the level of consciousness on this? How can you get the federal government to take the responsibility? Florida does not have a foreign policy. This is a federal policy or absence of federal policy. It's so clear that we're not being treated fairly. We have to come up with a solution. It hurts your head trying to figure out what to do.

  Lawton Chiles

  Hurt, Responsibility, Florida

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• 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 . . .

  Alexander Hamilton

  Exercise, Government, Use

  Alexander Hamilton (1999). “The Federalist Papers”, p.145, Lulu.com

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• Imagine the uproar if the Federal government tried to make everyone wear a radio transmitter around their neck so we can keep track of their movements. But people happily carry their cell phones in their purses and pockets.

  Lee Child

  Phones, Government, Cells

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• While the political debate over abortion will continue for a very long time, the federal government can and should be doing more to support programs and services that provide women with better options.

  Tim Ryan

  Government, Long, Support

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• Unreason is now ascendant in the United States—in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government.

  Sam Harris

  School, Government, United States

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.230, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In
  the creation of the federal government, the states exercised the
  highest act of sovereignty, and they may, if they please, repeat the
  proof of their sovereignty, by its annihilation. But the union possesses
  no innate sovereignty, like the states; it was not self-constitute d; it
  is conventional, and of course subordinate to the sovereignties by
  which it was formed.

  John Taylor

  Government, Self, Unions

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• I looked at No Child Left Behind after it was enacted and saw what happened and saw the expansion of the federal government and the role of education. And I said, you know, that was - that's not what I believe in.

  Rick Santorum

  Children, Believe, Government

  Interview with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. February 26, 2012.

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• 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.

  Tim Scott

  Government, America, Progress

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• We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

  Al Sharpton

  Government, Giving, Needs

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• History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Rights, Government, Rare Occasion

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• One of these days, someone smarter and younger and more articulate than I is going to get through to the American people just how really messed up the federal government has become. And when that happens, the American people are going to rise up like that football crowd in Cleveland and run both teams off the field.

  Zell Miller

  Football, Running, Team

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• The Second Amendment, like the rest of the Bill of Rights, was meant to inhibit only the federal government, not the states. The framers, as The Federalist Papers attest (see No. 28), saw the state militias as forces that might be summoned into action against the federal government itself, if it became tyrannical.

  Joseph Sobran

  Rights, Government, Second Amendment

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