Quotes About Federal

Instead of incentivizing quick, short-term decisions, the federal government should be asking the tough questions when governments turn over publicly funded transportation assets to for-profit operators.

One of the things we have to understand is that federal transportation dollars require a local match. If that money isn't there, that money goes to another state.

I'm proud to have partnered and worked with Congresswoman Ayanna Presley, Sen. Ed Markey as they filed federal legislation that would generate billions of dollars for transit agencies across the country to offer fare-free transportation.

Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.

There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.

If anything like the 1918 flu occurred, the basic functions of the society would come to a halt, and no one in the federal government seemed to have worried about it.

For that purpose, partly as the result of Ranieri's persistent lobbying, two new facilities had sprung up in the federal government alongside Ginnie Mae. They guaranteed the mortgages that did not qualify for the Ginnie Mae stamp. The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (called Freddie Mac) and the Federal National Mortgage Association (called Fannie Mae) between them, by giving their guarantees, were able to transform most home mortgages into government-backed bonds.

new strategy. It had three parts to it: to detect outbreaks overseas so they might remain there; to stockpile vaccines and antiviral drugs; and, finally, to "be ready to respond at the federal, state and local levels in the event that a pandemic reaches our shores.

After Trump took office, DJ Patil watched with wonder as the data disappeared across the federal government.

The final standards do a good job of setting the bar for a more environmentally responsible kind of farming but, as perhaps was inevitable as soon as bureaucratic and industrial thinking was brought to bear, many of the philosophical values embodied in the word organic - the sorts of values expressed by Albert Howard - did not survive the federal rule making process.

Racism is not first and foremost a skin problem. It is a sin problem. See, when you believe that racism is a skin problem, you can take three hundred years of slavery, court decisions, marches, and the federal government involvement and still not get it fixed right.

The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year - far less than the property value lost on a single day when 17 mansions slid down a hill in 2005 in Laguna Beach, Calif.

We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.

My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I can write murder mysteries.

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results.

All Australians are required by law to vote in federal elections, including residents of the Northern Territory.

Bundesbahnangestelltenwitwe (a widow of a federal railway employee)

You call for a constitutional amendment banning abortion? We call for federally-funded, partial-birth abortions at the drive-through at McDonald's.

Forty-four percent of Americans did not pay federal income tax.

Anything that grows is, by definition, alive. Washington, D.C. was no exception. As a living organism, the Federal Government's number one job was self-preservation. Any threat to its existence had to be dealt with.

This is an appropriate role for the federal government - to invest in basic research.

No state can invest the kinds of dollars in infrastructure necessary on their own. They need federal help.

A federal government with enough money to buy iPads for local gym teachers is not a federal government that has been cut to the bone.