Quotes About Federal

It's disturbing to observe how partisan politicians play games with federal programs that help working people survive and thrive.

I support workplace clean air. But a federal ban on smoking would mean that you couldn't smoke in your own home. I don't care what people do in their home.

If I was a state, I would like to see education left to the schools themselves, but I don't want the federal government involved in education. I think that it ends up setting standards that cost you time and money and don't make any difference in education. I want to stop that.

The American people depend on these federal employees to process, investigate, and adjudicate applications for immigration rights and benefits in a timely and thorough manner.

Providing records in a timely manner is the least the federal government can do for the men and women who have selflessly served our country.

I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues.

Under Howard, federal government support for black Australia slowly dried up. Services were slashed, native title restricted.

I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think is overly generous. I've got self-imposed term limits of six terms if I have the privilege to serve that long.

Our environment is too important to neglect and it's time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises.

We are living in a time when the very integrity of the Constitution is being threatened daily, from federal bailouts to federal assumption of control over private business.

It's time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government.

You cannot keep your plan and have Obamacare at the same time. Obamacare, by definition, gets rid of your plan and replaces it with health care run by the federal government.

The ethnic tilt produced a backlash of virulent racism, as seen in the federal Chinese Exclusion Act in 1862, which set a moratorium on Chinese immigration for ten years, at a time when every other nationality was setting out for America daily.

The complexity of modern federal criminal law, codified in several thousand sections of the United States Code and the virtually infinite variety of factual circumstances that might trigger an investigation into a possible violation of the law, make it difficult for anyone to know, in advance, just what particular set of statements might later appear (to a prosecutor) to be relevant to some such investigation.

have had trouble articulating what liberalism is, beyond the conviction that the federal government should use its power to do nice things wherever and whenever it can.

Hillary's aides didn't need to wonder why her economic message wasn't breaking through. It wasn't rocket science. She hadn't told the truth to the public about her e-mails, and she was under federal investigation.

The National Road, sometimes called the Cumberland Road because it originally terminated in Cumberland, Maryland, was the first Federal highway. It was built between 1811 and 1820 for some $7,000,000 to connect Baltimore with Ohio. It followed a route laid out by Gen. James Braddock's pioneers during the French and Indian War and became an important line of commerce.

After subtracting our operating expenses, we remit our profits to the Treasury, in turn reducing the federal deficit.

With little room to cut the funds rate further, how could we put downward pressure on longer-term rates?

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

After much reflection, I have concluded that the federal individual mandate, which requires all Americans to purchase health insurance starting in 2014, will not be upheld.

I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.

Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.

In January 2013, I told the people in the Justice Department after the re-election that I wanted to focus on reforming the federal criminal justice system. I made an announcement in August of that year in San Francisco, when we rolled out the Smart on Crime initiative.