Federal Government Quotes - Page 11

• So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.

  Vicente Fox

  Responsibility, Government, Law

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• Our federal government, which was intended to operate as a very limited constitutional republic, has instead become a virtually socialist leviathan that redistributes trillions of dollars. We can hardly be surprised when countless special interests fight for the money. The only true solution to the campaign money problem is a return to a proper constitutional government that does not control the economy. Big government and big campaign money go hand-in-hand.

  Ron Paul

  Fighting, Government, Hands

  "Why Is There So Much Money in Politics?" by Ron Paul, February 4, 2002.

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• [T]he vast regulatory structure the federal government has erected in the name of the commerce power cannot be ended overnight, in many cases, but the pretense that such programs are constitutional can be ended, even as the programs themselves are phased out over time.

  Roger Pilon

  Government, Names, Program

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• We developed at the local school district level probably the best public school system in the world. Or it was until the Federal government added Federal interference to Federal financial aid and eroded educational quality in the process.

  Ronald Reagan

  Educational, School, Government

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• Not surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. Judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its advocates, has hardly restrained Congress at all. Instead it has progressively stripped the states of their traditional powers, while allowing federal power to grow unchecked.

  Joseph Sobran

  Government, Judicial Review, Favors

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where gay marriage is legal to enjoy the same economic advantages that federal laws now grant to straight couples? Or is it a 'conservative' ruling, limiting the federal government's ability to override state power?

  Jeff Greenfield

  Couple, Gay, Government

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• The Federal Government is the people and the budget is a reflection of their need.

  John F. Kennedy

  Reflection, Government, People

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.326, Best Books on

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• The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages.

  Mark Zandi

  Party, Government, Tea

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• Is the United States going to decide, are the people of this country going to decide that their Federal Government shall in the future have no right under any implied power or any court-approved power to enter into a solution of a national economic problem, but that that national economic problem must be decided only by the States?... We thought we were solving it, and now it has been thrown right straight in our faces. We have been relegated to the horse-and-buggy definition of interstate commerce.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Horse, Government

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• America has got the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in.

  Todd Akin

  Cancer, Government, America

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• Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders.

  Bob Barr

  Country, Government, Long

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• I'm pro-life but I believe that the federal government ought to stay out of it. That's a decision that the people of each state ought to make for themselves.

  Bob Barr

  Believe, Government, People

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• State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a program to educate and train foster children for employment and provide them with financial assistance, as needed, until they reach age 21.

  Charles Bass

  Children, Government, Support

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• I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year.

  Haley Barbour

  Cutting, Yesterday, Government

  "Rep. Paul Ryan on Deficit Reduction; Gov. Haley Barbour on 2012 Presidential Politics". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 13, 2011.

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