Federal Government Quotes - Page 20

• Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Government, Years

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1988). “Presidential address: State of the Union, Monday, January 25, 1988”

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• It [the Constitution] didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been interpreted, and the Warren court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can't do to you, it says what the federal government can't do to you, but it doesn't say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf. And that hasn't shifted.

  Barack Obama

  Father, Government, Liberty

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• I think there are steps that can be taken that haven't been required or energy to make that fight more secure and we are going to continue to push the federal government to do that.

  George Pataki

  Taken, Fighting, Thinking

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• This is crossing the Rubicon, after which there will be no more sovereign states in Europe with fully-fledged governments and parliaments which represent legitimate interests of their citizens, but only one State will remain. Basic things will be decided by a remote 'federal government' in Brussels and, for example, Czech citizens will be only a tiny particle whose voice and influence will be almost zero. ... We are against a European superstate.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Zero, Europe, Voice

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• We had Americans gather together in prayer, before they went to stand before the federal government ... that prayed for peace, that there wouldn't be confrontation.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Prayer, Government

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• I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all the rights reserved to the States, and the consolidation in itself of all powers, foreign and domestic; and that, too, by constructions which, if legitimate, leave no limits to their power... It is but too evident that the three ruling branches of [the Federal government] are in combination to strip their colleagues, the State authorities, of the powers reserved by them, and to exercise themselves all functions foreign and domestic.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Rights, Government

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• I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

  Herman Cain

  Order, Government, Broken

  "Exclusive: Herman Cain's First Interview Since Suspending Campaign". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. December 08, 2011.

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• Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.

  Chris Chocola

  Agency, Government, Years

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• Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.

  Ted Cruz

  Hurt, Jobs, Government

  "Ted Cruz: 'When Was The Last Time You Saw A Hispanic Panhandler?'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 6, 2012.

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• One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.

  Ted Cruz

  Taken, Responsibility, Government

  "Ted Cruz Puts Dewhurst on Defensive in Last Debate Before Texas Runoff" by Roque Planas, www.foxnews.com. July 18, 2012.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government

  John Moody

  War, Land, Government

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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