Federal Government Quotes - Page 5

• [M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Years, Two

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• When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Government, Investing, Mortgage

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I love to tell how I'm suffering because one percent we're paying 25 percent of the total. We're not paying 25 percent of the total taxes on individuals. We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the federal government. And they don't take that from me on capital gains. They don't take that from me on dividends. They take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Payroll Tax, Government, Suffering

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I am willing to pledge myself that if the time should ever come that the voluntary agencies of the country together with the localand state governments are unable to find resources with which to prevent hunger and sufferingI will ask the aid of every resource of the Federal Government.... I have the faith in the American people that such a day will not come.

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Agency, Government

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• I have never yet had anyone who could, through the use of logic and reason, justify the Federal Government borrowing the use of its own money. I believe the time will come when people will demand that this be changed. I believe the time will come in this country when they will actually blame you and me and everyone else connected with the Congress for sitting idly by and permitting such an idiotic system to continue.

  Wright Patman

  Country, Believe, Government

  Congressional Record of the House of Representatives, Volume 87, Part 7, pp. 7582-7583, September 29, 1941.

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• Within my own lifetime, I have seen the most ferocious assaults on Christian faith and morals; first on the part of the intellectual community, and then on the part of the government... the federal government has not even tried to conceal its hostility to religion.

  Jesse Helms

  Christian, Religious, Government

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• The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.

  James Madison

  Powerful, Government, People

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• The Federal Government has a responsibility to manage wisely those public lands and forests under its jurisdiction necessary in the interest of the public as a whole. ... In the utilization of these lands, the people are entitled to expect that their timber, minerals, streams and water supply, wildlife and recreational values should be safeguarded, improved and made available not only for this but for future generations.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Responsibility, Land, Government

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• Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic.

  Russ Feingold

  Patriotic, Government, Overreaching

  myDD.com, March 10, 2005.

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• Despite its potential, the federal government has restricted funding for creating new cell lines - putting the burden of any future research squarely on the shoulders of the private sector. Government's most basic responsibility, however, is the health and welfare of its people, so it has a duty to encourage appropriate scientific investigations that could possibly save the lives of millions.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Responsibility, Government, Cells

  "Future of the Internet: Net Neutrality, the Semantic Web, plus some comments on science by the mayor of New York". "Science Talk" with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. May 31, 2006.

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• There is so much chaos and dysfunction going on with the federal government that Dallas can't wait any longer for federal help.

  Laura Miller

  Dysfunction, Government, Waiting

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• And it's absolutely hypocritical for the political party that talks about states rights, to suddenly ignore states rights, that say that the federal government or federalism has no business in this kind of business.

  Gary Ackerman

  Party, Rights, Government

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• Disaster management should be coordinated by the federal government, .. It is our exact responsibility.

  Alcee Hastings

  Responsibility, Government, Management

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• What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.

  Harold Washington

  Congratulations, Government, Justice

  Harold Washington, Alton Miller (1988). “Climbing a Great Mountain: Selected Speeches of Mayor Harold Washington”

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• I am committed to furthering the self-determination of Indian communities but without terminating the special relationship between the Federal Government and the Indian people. I am strongly opposed to termination. Self-determination means that you can decide the nature of your tribe's relationship with the Federal Government within the framework of the Self-Determination Act, which I signed in January of 1975.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Determination, Mean, Government

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1979). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Public opinion: May it always perform one of its appropriate offices, by teaching the public functionaries of the State and of the Federal Government, that neither shall assume the exercise of powers entrusted by the Constitution to the other.

  James K. Polk

  Teaching, Exercise, Government

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• The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.

  John Henninger Reagan

  Respect, Character, Rights

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• I think as people find out about my foreign policy, what they're going to find out is that I'm right in the mainstream of the Republican Party. I believe the number one priority of the federal government is national defense.

  Lindsey Graham

  Party, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• First, this law - the National Defense Education Act - ended years and years of debate about one controversial question: 'Shall the Federal Government, with all its massive resources, get directly involved in aiding American education?' The answer this law gave was a loud 'Yes!' - and thus we paved the way for a new era of support for education in America. This law, in fact, helped make possible more than 50 new education laws passed in my administration.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, America, Government

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.944, Best Books on

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• Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.

  Robert Toombs

  Government, Agents, Common

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• Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education.

  Robert Draper

  Government, Roles, Faces

  "Books: 'Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush'". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. September 11, 2007.

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• The fact of the matter is that hope comes from many sources. I think depending on the federal government to be some sort of a savior is false hope.

  Tim Scott

  Thinking, Government, Matter

  "Should government play a role in addressing root causes of Baltimore’s upheaval?". "PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. April 28, 2015.

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• In the distance, I see a frightful storm brewing in the form of un-tethered government debt. I choose the words -“frightful storm' - deliberately to avoid hyperbole. Unless we take steps to deal with it, the long-term fiscal situation of the federal government will be unimaginably more devastating to our economic prosperity than the subprime debacle and the recent debauching of credit markets that we are working right now so hard to correct.

  Richard W. Fisher

  Distance, Government, Long

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• The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Mean, Government, Balance

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1995). “Memoirs”, McClelland & Stewart Limited

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• The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sovereignty. There are new and disturbing reports of American nuclear submarines passing though Canadian waters without obtaining the permission of, or even notifying, the Canadian government.

  Stephen Harper

  Government, Water, Navy

  "New Canada PM Challenges U.S. on Arctic Sovereignty", www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2006.

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