Federal Government Quotes - Page 8

• Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

  Barney Frank

  Believe, Government, Birth

  Barney Frank (2015). “Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage”, p.99, Macmillan

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• I am running for President because it is obvious that no Democrat or Republican is ever going to stop the relentless growth of the federal government. Only a Libertarian will free you from the income tax.

  Harry Browne

  Running, Government, Growth

  Harry Browne's Acceptance Speech at the Libertarian National Convention in Anaheim, California, www.harrybrowne.org. July 2, 2000.

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• The fact that the federal government is the nation's greatest environmental villain has not stopped activists from reflexively turning to politicians to “protect the environment.”

  David Bergland

  Government, Environmental, Facts

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• We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts

  Alan Keyes

  Cutting, Government, Cards

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• There is no company - no corporation on earth that engages in accounting fraud to the extent the Imperial Federal Government of the United Sates does. Not many congressmen are willing to come forward with the details.

  Neal Boortz

  Government, Political, Details

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• The American people and American businesses are looking to the federal government to lead our nation on the path to economic recovery. It is time to stop splitting hairs. It is time to act.

  Joseph Crowley

  Recovery, Hair, Government

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• Actually, I have been very supportive of a very robust stimulus package from day one. I think this economy has to have a major stimulus initiative because the only group with liquidity is the federal government.

  Judd Gregg

  Thinking, Government, Supportive

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• I've experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I am encouraged that the federal government is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center.

  Greg Walden

  Government, Hands, Organization

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• For over 15 years, through the clean coal programs of the Department of Energy, the Federal Government has been a solid partner, working jointly with private companies and the states to develop and demonstrate a new generation of environmentally clean technology using coal.

  Tim Holden

  Technology, Government, Years

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• There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound reasonable. They still sound reasonable, in large part, because so many of them can be leveled against the federal government of the United States.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Independence, Twenties

  "Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, May 1991.

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• During the fiscal year ending in 1861, expenses of the federal government had been $67 million. After the first year of armed conflict they were $475 million and, by 1865, had risen to one billion, three-hundred million dollars. On the income side of the ledger, taxes covered only about eleven per cent of that figure. By the end of the war, the deficit had risen to $2.61 billion. That money had to come from somewhere.

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, Government, Years

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• We have a balance of $ .32 in the bank . . . Which makes us four-and-a-half trillion dollars richer than the federal government.

  Jim Borgman

  Government, Balance, Dollars

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• The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse.   The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to “help.”

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Government, Black

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• Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Government, Entrepreneur, Priorities

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• For taxpayers, however, it’s [pay equity] a rip-off. And it has nothing to do with gender. Both men and women taxpayers will pay additional money to both men and women in the civil service. That’s why the federal government should scrap its ridiculous pay equity law.

  Stephen Harper

  Rip, Men, Law

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• I think it's a typical hidden agenda of the Liberal party... They had the courts do it for them, they put the judges in they wanted, then they failed to appeal -- failed to fight the case in court... I think the federal government deliberately lost this case in court and got the change to the law done through the back door.

  Stephen Harper

  Party, Fighting, Thinking

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• It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta, to limit the extent to which an aggressive and hostile federal government can encroach upon legitimate provincial jurisdiction.

  Stephen Harper

  Government, Limits, Initiative

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open political system…The central feature of the American constitutional system—the separation of powers—exacerbates many of these problems. The governments of the US were not designed to be efficient or powerful, but to be tolerable and malleable. Those who designed these arrangements always assumed that the federal government would exercise few and limited powers.

  James Q. Wilson

  Powerful, Exercise, Agency

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• But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government

  James Q. Wilson

  Government, Size, Scope

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• Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again.

  Grover Cleveland

  Government

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• Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.

  Jay Inslee

  Government, Iraq, Enough

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• I think the federal government really should be supporting Louisiana and ensuring that every person from that area has an opportunity to vote on what will occur in the area.

  Stephanie Tubbs Jones

  Opportunity, Thinking, Government

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• In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.

  Ron Kind

  Government, Land, Oil

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• Arizona did not make illegal, illegal. It is a crime to enter or remain in the U.S. in violation of federal law. States have had inherent authority to enforce immigration laws when the federal government has failed or refused to do so.

  Russell Pearce

  Government, Law, Immigration

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• These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Government, Play

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.nbcnews.com. August 29, 2011.

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