Federal Government Quotes - Page 21

• The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

  Tommy Douglas

  Government, Should Have, Political

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• You will never meet anyone who admires the American founders more than I do, but they were human, they made mistakes. Perhaps their worst was that their Bill of Rights stops at the border. Inside the US, the federal government has been limited. Beyond the borders, the government has been able to do anything it wanted.

  Richard J. Maybury

  Freedom, Mistake, Rights

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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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• If the exercise of power of internal taxation by the Union should be discovered on experiment to be really inconvenient, the federal government may then forbear the use of it . . .

  Alexander Hamilton

  Exercise, Government, Use

  Alexander Hamilton (1999). “The Federalist Papers”, p.145, Lulu.com

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• The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit.

  Mike Johanns

  True Friend, Government, Goal

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• Even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.

  William J. Clinton

  Memorable, Commitment, Government

  "CNN Newsroom" with John Berman, edition.cnn.com. November 12, 2013.

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• I support ensuring that committed gay couples have the same rights and responsibilities afforded to any married couple in this country. I believe strongly in stopping laws designed to take rights away and passing laws that extend equal rights to gay couples. I've required all agencies in the federal government to extend as many federal benefits as possible to LGBT families as the current law allows. And I've called on Congress to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act and to pass the Domestic Partners Benefits and Obligations Act.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Couple, Believe

  "In His Own Words: President Obama's Nuanced View on Gay Marriage". Remarks At Human Rights Camapign Dinner, www.foxnews.com. October 10, 2009.

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• Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given time outside of one's own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere.

  Bob Barr

  Home, Government, Ironic

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• What would you think of a person who earned $24,000 a year but spent $35,000? Suppose on top of that, he was already $170,000 in debt. You'd tell him to get his act together - stop spending so much or he'd destroy his family, impoverish his kids and wreck their future. Of course, no individual could live so irresponsibly for long. But tack on eight more zeroes to that budget and you have the checkbook for our out-of-control, big-spending federal government.

  John Stossel

  Kids, Thinking, Eight

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• Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.

  Marty Meehan

  Government, Years, Guarantees That

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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