Federal Government Quotes - Page 23

• When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states to assist them in enhancing the voting process in America.

  DeForest Soaries

  Government, America, Voting

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• It is true that I voted against the National Defense Authorization Act, because when I campaigned in Texas I told voters in Texas that I would oppose the federal government having the authority to detain U.S. citizens permanently with no due process. I have repeatedly supported an effort to take that out of that bill, and I honored that campaign commitment.

  Ted Cruz

  Commitment, Government, Texas

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

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• The American people don't trust the Federal Government to enforce our immigration laws, and we will not be able to do anything on immigration until we first prove to the American people that illegal immigration is under control. And we can do that. We know what it takes to do that.

  Marco Rubio

  Government, Law, People

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• All of us should remember that the federal government is not some mysterious institution comprised of buildings, files and paper. The people are the government. What we create we ought to be able to control.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, People, Paper

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.56, Best Books on

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• The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow) working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Night, Government, Crow

  Letter to Charles Hammond, August 18, 1821.

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• The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why don't we handle the drugs like we handle alcohol? ... I fear the drug war because it undermines our civil liberties. It magnifies our problems on the borders. We've spent over the last 40 years a trillion dollars on this war and - believe me - the kids can still get the drugs. It just hasn't worked.

  Ron Paul

  War, Believe, Kids

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• The appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment, and of giving to the state governments such an agency in the formation of the federal government, as must secure the authority of the former.

  James Madison

  Government, Agency, Giving

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a direct representation in the Senate, and leaves in their possession certain exclusive and very important portions of sovereign power. This fully corresponds, in every rational import of the terms, with the idea of a federal government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Ideas, Government, Important

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.85, Rowman & Littlefield

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• After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America.

  Alexander Hamilton

  America, Government, United States

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2014). “The Federalist Papers”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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

  Bob Inglis

  Government, Names, Homeland Security

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• 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.

  Chris Christie

  Government, People, Chinese

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Marco Rubio was fighting to grant amnesty and not to secure the border, I was fighting to secure the border. And this also goes to trust, listening on to campaign trails. Candidates all the time make promises. You know, Marco said," he learned that the American people didn't trust the federal government."

  Ted Cruz

  Fighting, Government, People

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.

  Laurence Tribe

  Strong, Gun, Government

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

  Jim Breithaupt

  Technology, Government, Turtles

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• To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority of the Federal Government.

  Martin Van Buren

  Patriotic, Government, Debt

  Martin Van Buren (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk”, p.1829, Wildside Press LLC

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• If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.

  Ronald Reagan

  Military, Government, Classroom

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• They want the federal government controlling the Social Security, like it's some kind of federal program.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Government, Political

  Bush's Campaign Speech at St. Charles, Missouri, edition.cnn.com. November 2, 2000.

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• I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.

  Barack Obama

  Technology, Government, Administration

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• Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would you prefer, a United States with political power centralized in Washington, powerful government agencies with detailed information on Americans and compliant states or power widely dispersed over 50 states, thousands of local jurisdictions and a limited federal government?

  Walter E. Williams

  Powerful, Agency, Government

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• I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Home, Government

  "The Real Thomas Jefferson".

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• Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period of grave emergency. Its grants of power to the federal government and its limitations of the power of the States were determined in the light of emergency, and they are not altered by emergency.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Light, Government, Liberty

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

  Frederick Douglass

  Government, Essence, Slavery

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.536, Chicago Review Press

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• This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would interpose the Government as a biased protagonist, armed with the awesome authority of the Federal Government, in addition to rulemaking and umpire powers. The broad grants of power to the Attorney General to initiate and intervene in civil actions would go far toward transforming him into George Orwell's 'Big Brother' of '1984,' in the year 1964.

  Strom Thurmond

  Brother, Years, Umpires

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• Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other nation.

  James Madison

  Freedom, Gun, Government

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• We repeat and again reaffirm that neither a State nor the Federal Government can constitutionally force a person "to profess a belief or disbelief in any religion." Neither can constitutionally pass laws or impose requirements which aid all religions as against nonbelievers, and neither can aid those religions based on a belief in the existence of God as against those religions founded on different beliefs.

  Hugo Black

  Government, Law, Religion

  "Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 U.S. 488". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 19, 1961.

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