Quotes About Federal

Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

Surprisingly, the United States lacks federal legislation to protect consumers from an abundance of harmful chemicals in everyday products.

By far the most important psychological and political part of the Hayes compromise package, of course, was the withdrawal of all federal troops from the South. It was far better, said the new President, for the white man and the black man of the South to make their peace together than to live in constant tension under the surveillance of a federal garrison.

When he didn't immediately answer, she gave him a good nudge with her foot. He was so surprised, he smiled. Did you just kick a federal agent? No, I nudged a federal agent. I'm getting ready to kick.

B. A. Botkin's Lay My Burden Down and the Federal Writers' Project book, The Negro in Virginia.

The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better than the private sector will spend it.

The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.

Federal government shutdowns are unsettling, because you realize how little you depend on it compared to the money you give in taxes.

We must move from revenue-neutral to revenue-reducing tax reform, because the federal government spends far too much money.

Most Americans agree that federal money, their tax money shouldn't be used to help pay for abortions.

Medical research is needed, and I just saw there was a need for help that the government - state or federal - was not spending the taxpayers' money on helping people get through college.

Anyone who thinks you can pay $3, 100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T.

Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical.

The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.

If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it's an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

If I've tried to bring anything to federal politics, it's the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart.

They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.

The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.

The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.

President Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison yesterday. Obama said it was a good chance to talk about prison reform, and to catch up with so many former congressmen.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.