Quotes About Federal

American citizens and communities should be free to choose where they would like to live and not be subject to federal neighborhood engineering at the behest of an overreaching federal government.

If the federal government is dumb enough to give it to us, we'll be smart enough to take it. In Minnesota's case, we are not a net taker of money from the federal government.

My view is that we should not be taxing at the Federal level for the things that New Jersey can do for itself.

Federal Officer: The arms piled on the ground were not worth 10 cents a ton.

in the improbable event that the president attempts to pardon himself for committing federal crimes (which likely would be unlawful), he can't thereby preclude his own impeachment.

Federal taxes may be due on up to half of your Social Security benefits if what's called your "combined income" is more than $25,000 a year ($32,000 for joint filers). If you make between $25,000 and $34,000 ($32,000 and $44,000 for joint returns), you may owe federal taxes on up to 85 percent of your benefits.

Years later, my friend, Attorney W. T. Skoll of Spokane, Washington, showed me the new volume of the Federal Reporter, Vol. 61, p. 163, containing the decisions rendered on the Mudsill mine-salting case, and Mr. Skoll informed me that this was the only mine-salting case ever passed on by the Circuit Judges of the United States. Thus did the Mudsill mine-salting operation end, and become part of our law history to be used as a precedent in future mine-salting cases.

I wouldn't mind giving the feds their cut if they weren't so damn nosy, if any of them actually read the constitution and if they didn't spend every penny on some harebrained scheme.

en el Distrito Federal? Sólo los héroes o los idiotas.

Eran los albores del auge del narcotráfico en México, que se metió a la casa del gobierno por las ventanas de su policía política, la Dirección Federal de Seguridad.

Los gobiernos estatales son los responsables, por ejemplo, de que en México sólo se castiguen en promedio cinco de cada 100 homicidios dolosos, pues la persecución de los homicidios no es una facultad federal, sino local.

I had grown weary of federal agents and wiseguys, narcs and stings and brain-fried lowlifes, and all the seriousness and pretense we invest in the province of moral invalids.

I believe that the federal government, like a raging river, has expanded upon the barriers and the boundaries of its banks, and unfortunately, it is flooding all of America with its encroachment.

It's going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy.

Proponents of nationwide injunctions argue that they are necessary to ensure that the law is uniform throughout the country. But the federal judiciary wasn't made to produce instant legal uniformity.

The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government in the states of the union in regard to non-federal affairs at the local level.

Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states of the American Union must judge the constitutionality of the acts of their agent, the federal government, since no impartial arbiter between them exists.

The SSA's practice of allowing union activity during normal federal government operations is unfair to seniors and taxpayers.

The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.

I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people want to make sure that this definition of marriage remains secure, because after all, the family is the fundamental unit of government.

The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.

I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement of two-thirds of the members of the United States Senate.

Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding.

The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.