Quotes About Federal

The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.

You can provide better services for less if you get the federal government out of the way.

Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security.

Society and government at all levels - the state level, the local level and, of course, the federal level - really needs to redouble its efforts if we're really going to make a difference in combating autism.

Everyone knows that a federal job is a lifetime job, and for many in Congress, it seems they have a lifetime job, too.

Why do we need a federal Department of Education? Curriculum should be driven at the local level anyway.

We are way overstepping bounds as federal legislators.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

There is no constitutional basis for the federal government to be mandated to assist with student debt.

The federal government is way larger than it should be.

States know better than the federal government how to allocate and manage resources to address the needs of their people.

I don't want the federal government to rush in and bail the out right away.

The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal government is responsible for repairing the damage that has been done, which has not been completed yet.

It's not, 'We have a city to bid, now let's go check in with the federal government'.

We should have a very limited federal government.

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.

I think the federal government should be doing only what the Constitution says it should be. We don't have authority under the federal Constitution to have a big federal criminal justice system.

In addition to higher pay, federal government employment is far more secure than private-sector employment.

Should the federal government be giving people cellphones?

We actually do need a federal government, but we need a limited one.

Even if it's a national issue, the federal government cannot provide all the answers.

A lot of the basic research that helped us figure out fracking came from the federal government.

The federal government is enormous; it never shrinks. And the interest is killing us.

At the federal level, as a member of Congress, you have one vote out of 435, and in the Senate, it's one out of 100. So, the ability to get some stuff done exists as a much larger opportunity at a local level than in the federal government.