Federal Government Quotes - Page 16

• [States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Simple, Government, Branches

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• Leading from the front: It's what built America. But these days, the federal government isn't at the front - it's cowering in the back corner of the room, ducking responsibility and hoping no one notices.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Responsibility, Government, America

  Michael Bloomberg's Opening Address at Ceasefire Bridging the Political Divide Conference, annenberg.usc.edu. June 20, 2007.

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• Most gun dealers follow the law and run honest businesses. But the statistics show that 1 percent of dealers sell more than half of all illegal guns. Why isn't the federal government going after them? Here's one reason: unlike mayors, members of Congress don't get a phone call in the middle of the night when a cop is shot and killed. They don't deliver the eulogies.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Running, Night, Gun

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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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• Aside from the poor example it sets, the federal government enables reckless spending on public-employee pensions by offering hope of assistance from Washington if things get bad enough.

  Devin Nunes

  Government, Offering, Example

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• I've been involved in the intelligence side of the federal government for a long time. We all know that we have to have a balance between security to protect the American people and liberty. We take an oath to protect and defend the constitution and the American people.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Long, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Views, Should Have

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When you talk about raising that debt limit, the only way that I would ever support raising the debt limit if we also talk about budgetary controls on the federal government, capping its spending, how do we deal with the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid problems, because they cannot continue to run on auto-pilot.

  Allen West

  Running, Medicare And Medicaid, Government

  "Darrell Issa, Fred Upton Talk Oversight; Allen West, Mike Lee on Tea Party Conservatives". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. January 02, 2011.

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• With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Thinking, Simple, Government

  Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Caldwell Calhoun (1832). “The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and '99: With Jefferson's Original Draught Thereof. Also, Madison's Report, Calhoun's Address, Resolutions of the Several States in Relation to State Rights. With Other Documents in Support of the Jeffersonian Doctrines of '98”, p.65

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• Most meteorological research is funded by the federal government. And boy, if you want to get federal funding, you better not come out and say human-induced global warming is a hoax because you stand the chance of not getting funded.

  William M. Gray

  Boys, Government, Research

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• We should have a very limited federal government.

  Paul Broun

  Government, Should Have, Should

  "Anderson Cooper 360" with Soledad O'Brien, transcripts.cnn.com. January 27, 2011.

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• Abortion is a states' rights issue. Education is a states' right issue. Medicinal marijuana is a states' rights issue. Gay marraige is a states' rights issue. Assisted suicide- like Terri Schiavo- is a states' rights issue. Come to think of it, almost every issue is a states' rights issue. Let's get the federal government out of our lives.

  Wayne Allyn Root

  Suicide, Gay, Marijuana

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• We have a country that is $5 a gallon gas, $4 a gallon gas, we got unbearable unemployment and a federal government that is out of control. We have to take back this country and we've got to get off the sidelines and take it to President Obama.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Country, Government, President

  "Tim Pawlenty Reacts to First 2012 Republican Presidential Debate". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. May 5, 2011.

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• Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states of the American Union must judge the constitutionality of the acts of their agent, the federal government, since no impartial arbiter between them exists.

  Thomas Woods

  Government, Ideas, Judging

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• I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the publics trust.

  Mike Quigley

  Government, Ethical, Worthy

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• I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.

  Mike Quigley

  Government, Accountability, Bills

  "Paulson’s Actions Raise Serious Ethical Questions" by Mike Quigley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2011.

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• Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure.

  Elliott Abrams

  Government, Dubai, Cracks

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• People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.

  Mike Conaway

  Government, People, Care

  "DADT repeal: Hill surprise of 2010?". Interview with David Mark, www.politico.com.

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• Net result [of the Dept. of Agriculture's Payment in Kind - PIK - program]: total farm income, now expected to be around $25 billion, this fiscal year, will exceed total federal subsidies by only a couple of billion. You could argue that those fellows out there on the fruited plain are in effect working for the federal government and that, therefore, the U.S. now has socialized agriculture under the Reagan Administration. Rich, eh?

  Daniel Seligman

  Couple, Years, Agriculture

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• Feminists are forever discovering subtle new forms of sexism and then beating men around the head and shoulders with it. It is left to the rest of us to suffer the inevitable backlash this provokes among men. Besides, the feminists have the Federal Government behind them.

  Mona Charen

  Sex, Men, Feminist

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• Perhaps Americans should recognize that if they want to keep their privacy, they should ask the federal government to do only the things that the Constitution allows.

  Dave Kopel

  Government, Want, Privacy

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• Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers - and not to tell you about it.

  Jonathan Zittrain

  Government, Details, Demand

  "Lost in the Cloud". www.nytimes.com. July 19, 2009.

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• The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land.

  Andrew Napolitano

  Government, Land, Doe

  "Judge Napolitano Rips "Massive, Stalinistic-Like Use Of Force" In Nevada Ranch Standoff" by Ian Schwartz, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 24, 2014.

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• The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.

  Mike Pompeo

  Government, Energy, Loser

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• 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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