We’ve collected the best Federal Government Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Don Young, John Warner, Michael McCaul, Shaun King, Cathy McMorris Rodgers. Use them as an inspiration.
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I don’t see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution.
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When you turn 18 in the United States, you should be automatically registered to vote. Ideally, this sensible reform would be a federal law affecting all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and American territories, but our federal government stopped being sensible a very long time ago.
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For over 15 years, through the clean coal programs of the Department of Energy, the Federal Government has been a solid partner, working jointly with private companies and the states to develop and demonstrate a new generation of environmentally clean technology using coal.
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In the Senate, I will work to shrink the size of our federal government to its core Constitutional role so the private sector can thrive.
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As a former entrepreneur who left Main Street to help President Trump drain the swamp of corruption in Washington, I’m proud to spearhead the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 which will reduce billions of dollars of improper payments from the federal government.
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When the federal government settles a case, the settlement dollars should go to the victims or the Treasury – period.
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We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of money of course in health care, in education, and then, on top of it all, in incarceration. And the federal government doesn’t reimburse us on any of these things.
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Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage?
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I continue to vote against such spending increases, but sometimes I think some of my Republican colleagues forgot that we were sent here to shrink the federal government, not to grow it.
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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.
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Zion and communities like it have been unfairly saddled with storing our nation’s stranded nuclear waste… with no compensation in return. The federal government needs to make right by these communities.
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The federal government needs a strategic approach that includes strong leadership and the ability to manage weather related risks. The challenge of developing such an approach is complex: It must not only encompass all levels of government but must also be developed in a bipartisan manner.
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The way we’re really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs.
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The federal government should only be providing services for emergencies. You and I, taxpayers, shouldn’t be paying for cell phones so someone can have a social life. I just don’t think it’s appropriate.
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We’re losing jobs in our manufacturing base, and those families that are going to be out of work over the holidays, that is a very sad thing. That is more governmental dependency. That is a reduced tax revenue for the state and for the federal government.
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I’m doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California.
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The fundamental challenge is that people like me simply do not trust the federal government any longer.
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It doesn’t make any sense to continue to elect people like Ron Kind or Russ Feingold, individuals that literally are dedicated to growing the federal government.
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Both the federal government and the states should go ahead and soak the rich to reduce inequality and raise money for health care, child care, infrastructure investment, education, decarbonization, and a thousand other priorities.
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We should have a very limited federal government.
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I actually find that Canadians are incredibly interested in democracy, and alarmed when they realize that the Prime Minister‘s Office is controlling virtually everything that goes on within the federal government.
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If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization, or association which lobbies the federal government.
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Particularly as a supposed ‘conservative,’ Trump ought to know something about the relationship between the federal government and the states.
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I went to Washington, D.C, for the first time my senior year as part of Girls Nation, put on by the American Legion Auxiliary, which sends high school students to D.C. to form a pretend federal government. There was an energy about the city that made me feel like I just had to come back there.
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The signers of the Declaration of Independence did not pledge their fortunes and sacred honor so the federal government could play ‘helicopter parent’ to a free people. They saw government as our shared project to secure liberty, doing a few big things and doing them well.
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If the federal government won’t secure the border, the State of Arizona will step in to complement federal efforts in a constitutional manner and protect the security of its citizens.
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We’re facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do.
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Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.
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If the federal government believes free contraception is vital, then surely it can find another way to implement it than by forcing family businesses and religious broadcasters and others to violate their religious beliefs.
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We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.
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To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.
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After four centuries of Spanish rule, Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in 1898. Residents were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917, and the federal government has allowed Puerto Rico to exercise authority over its local affairs in a manner similar to the 50 states.
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Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration‘s current policy affects that legality; 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.
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The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.
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We can’t have – we can’t have a patchwork of 50 states developing their own immigration policy. I understand the frustration of people in Arizona. They want the federal government to step up and deal with this problem once and for all, and that’s what we want to do.
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Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but they also should have the right to fail.
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As proud as we are of this city and as extraordinary as it is, all of south Louisiana and all of the Gulf Coast is a very special place, and the federal government has underinvested in it year after year after year, whether it’s education or health care.
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One of the best programs that the federal government sponsors is the Small Business Innovation Research program, in which more than 2.5 percent of federal research and development funding at the largest agencies goes directly to small businesses.
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The U.S. federal government may be going broke, but it’s not because of NASA.
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Telling the public, ‘We’ll get to it later,’ is inadequate. That’s what the federal government does.
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If we could have a really good debate with the states and the federal government on tax reform I’d be up for that.
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It is proper that the federal government help alleviate short-term disruptions and price spikes such as those brought about by Hurricane Katrina.
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All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts.
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People aren’t going to go bankrupt anymore if they have a serious illness, which was a serious issue here in the country before the Affordable Care Act. And, in fact, the expense of expanding health care for those who need the subsidy is picked up by the federal government for most of the early years.
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What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.
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I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government – the Kennedy administration at that time – into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen.
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States that scrap their state-run Obamacare exchanges are admitting they’ve wasted millions of dollars in federal grants. It’s only fair that states have to pay American taxpayers and the federal government back for their total incompetence.
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The Federal Government plays a critical role in innovation in our country and has throughout our history.
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The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.
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Arizona did not make illegal, illegal. It is a crime to enter or remain in the U.S. in violation of federal law. States have had inherent authority to enforce immigration laws when the federal government has failed or refused to do so.
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It is past time for the federal government to establish an Unhoused Bill of Rights and make the desperately needed investments to guarantee housing, health care, and a robust social safety net for our unhoused neighbors.
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The No. 1 purpose of the federal government is national defense.
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The federal government is way larger than it should be.
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I start with a concern about the growth of federal government. I start with a perspective concerned about the growth of that power, and containing it within the bounds of the Constitution.
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Well, the federal government has a responsibility to provide leadership in bringing together provinces.
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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.
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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.
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The similarities are limited but real. They amount to a shared disgust with politics as usual in America. The Tea Party focuses on the federal government; Occupy Wall Street focuses on corporate America and its influence over the government.
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We need to prioritize those expenditures of the federal government in A, B and C priorities… And I believe that on the C priority list are things like the Departments of Education and Energy, and those are the places where we should begin those defunding.
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The people in Washington are getting rich with our money. Under President Barack Obama, the federal government swelled to record size, and it took more and more of our money to pay for it. Who benefitted? Not Missouri farmers or workers.
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I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we’ve cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year.
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Climate change is not an excuse to give the federal government ever more power over private property and state resources.
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On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co-operation in furthering our country’s war effort by effecting at as early a date as may be possible this much needed restriction.
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I have worked in the federal government and saw the debilitating effects of our antiquated civil service system on morale and results.
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Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.
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Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.
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I don’t want the federal government to rush in and bail the out right away.
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It has become increasingly difficult for states or the federal government to apply the death penalty. But why even try? Nothing is accomplished, and while the chances of making a mistake are now diminished – DNA can prove guilt as well as innocence – life in prison is a worthy substitute.
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I’ve experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I am encouraged that the federal government is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center.
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We don’t want the federal government to shut down. It is so inappropriate, and it is not respectful of the people that have sent us here to do our jobs.
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If you look at the casualties, the federal government isn’t waging a War on Coal. If anything, coal is waging a war on us.
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While the federal government is committed to paying 100% of the cost of new people in Medicaid, I cannot, in good conscience, deny the uninsured access to care.
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Even if it’s a national issue, the federal government cannot provide all the answers.
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We’ve already seen the federal government stretch their regulatory tentacles into our homes and determine what kind of light bulbs we have to use.
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Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes, with large amounts of public money being lost.
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We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.
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It is time to cut out the mountains of waste and inefficiency and duplication in the federal government.
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The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state’s most vulnerable citizens.
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Republicans and Democrats have long recognized that our corporate tax system hamstrings business, reduces investment, and creates unfairness. Some corporations pay massive tax bills to the federal government while others use tailor-made deductions that enable them to pay close to nothing.
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It’s traditionally not federal policy to fund state and local salaries. It’s done sometimes on a temporary basis or a grant basis. But it’s not often done. And the reason is clear, because the federal government can’t continue in perpetuity these programs.
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Among the chartered responsibilities of the federal government were, in those areas where appropriate – such as facilitating interstate commerce – to provide for justice and domestic tranquility, the common defense, and to secure the blessings of liberty.
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I came up in a time where the assumption was, in the ’60s and ’70s, where the federal government was a great agent of progressive social change, it was the intervener in the best sense, and it would come and address injustice forthrightly.
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There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security.
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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.
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The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
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It turns out that in the federal government, there are a lot of innovators.
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For too long the federal government has interfered in the lives of working Americans with no purpose, and with little benefit.
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In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens’ rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation’s history.
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Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.
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As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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The real question is whether the federal government should be in the business of redistributing wealth to equalize the economic status of every state, including states where not many people, for whatever reason, have chosen to live. That type of redistribution is a distortion of our economy.
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I think that the press has a duty and an obligation to report on local government, state government, federal government – to be aggressive, to do its job. And its job is to report on whatever it’s covering.
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When the federal government gets around to cleaning up their lists, I am sure we’ll take another look at the Lowey amendment. But until then, this effort will continue to have bipartisan opposition.
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Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.
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I am looking forward to partnering with the federal government, as well as the business leaders in our state, to address the serious challenges we face. From a budget crisis to crumbling infrastructure, we will get the job done right.
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I think the federal government really should be supporting Louisiana and ensuring that every person from that area has an opportunity to vote on what will occur in the area.
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If for no other reason than the energy crisis now facing this country, the federal government should be eager to become partners with us in rebuilding our city.
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The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are.
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I do not support a federal minimum wage. I think every state has a different economy, a different cost of living. I don’t believe that’s the role of the federal government.
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Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.
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We don’t want the federal government coming in and telling us how to do our environmental remediation or how we’re going to do our healthcare.
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The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages.
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I don’t think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
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I am confident that Jeff Sessions will do his part to restore the delicate balance between the states and the federal government that the Founders envisioned.
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Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.
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The Election Assistance Commission represents a major, unprecedented commitment from the federal government to sustained freedom and vibrant democracy. I am humbled by the prospect of being one its charter members.
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When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.
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Elections do have consequences, and those we elect and far too often re-elect have forgotten how government works and for whom they work for, and that an ever growing, power hungry state and federal government are not the answer to the problem, but 80% of the time are the problem.
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I think it’s a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation’s borders.
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In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.
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I was at MSNBC; I was constantly saying to them during Bridgegate, ‘You’ve convicted Governor Christie without one iota of fact attaching him to the decision to stall the traffic on the bridge. Why don’t we wait until the federal government or the state government… completes its investigation.’
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The problem is we have a Wall Street-to-Washington access of power that has controlled the political climate. The donor class feeds the political class who does the dance that the donor class wants. And the result is federal government keeps getting bigger.
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There is no question that the federal government sometimes overdoes it in issuing rules and regulations.
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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.
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The tenth amendment said the federal government is supposed to only have powers that were explicitly given in the Constitution. I think the federal government’s gone way beyond that. The Constitution never said that you could have a Federal Reserve that would have $2.8 trillion in assets. We’ve gotten out of control.
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For the states that take the lead on reform – asset recycling, deregulation, service innovation – the Federal Government could step back, and allow greater flexibility in how we deliver our responsibilities.
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As a fiscal conservative, I believe one of the most important roles the federal government can play in assuring that our economy remains strong is to keep our fiscal house in order.
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Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?
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The responsibility for keeping our commitments to veterans falls on the federal government.
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I should not get Social Security. I think it’s a travesty for a man of my success and of my means to get anything from the federal government.
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Certainly, cutting spending is one of the things that can transcend to the federal government. I mean, I think the federal government has grown by leaps and bounds, and they need to look where do they need to cut.
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In reality, if Democrats truly cared about solutions to our immigration crisis they would have done so long ago – like in 2009, when they controlled the entire federal government and maintained a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.
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Let’s ensure our federal government works on behalf of all of its citizens – not just the ones with connections to people in power.
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We already have two branches of federal government that factor political considerations into their decision-making, and our Founding Fathers determined long ago that we don’t need a third.
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It is up to all of us – the state, Florida’s local communities, and the federal government – to work together on long-term solutions to improve the quality of our water.
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You’ve got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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Election Day 2010 saw the culmination of years of aggravation and resentment toward a federal government that became disconnected and disdainful of the values and priorities of Americans.
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We actually do need a federal government, but we need a limited one.
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Basically, Trump’s significant first moves have been twofold. To marginalize the media, and to start dismantling the federal government.
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Every governor knows better how to manage and provide for quality health care in their respective states than does one-size-fits-all at the federal government level.
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I don’t think you expand entitlements when so many people are dependent on government and when the money the federal government is offering is going to be taken away from you after just a couple of years.
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All of those loan programs that the federal government administers have flaws.
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The federal government has no business spending your hard-earned money on a project to monitor political speech on Twitter.
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President Obama‘s reckless defense cuts that are hanging over our cloud, hanging over the horizon could put almost 44,000 jobs at stake right here in Pennsylvania. we are not going to let that happen. You know why? Because No. 1, national defense is the first priority of the federal government.
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So you know, I think that the federal government, the Democrats, and President Obama are selling a lot of hope and change, but no delivery of any of those promises.
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The cell phone companies add to the problem. Every one they give out, they get money for from the federal government. So they have an incentive to give as many away as possible. And that’s exactly what they’re doing, and they’re making a killing.
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My position on immigration has been clear for a long time. I believe the federal government ought to do their job. You know, secure our borders. Come up with an immigration policy that Americans understand and people who want to come to this country understand.
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In addition to higher pay, federal government employment is far more secure than private-sector employment.
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But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.
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The federal government gets a lot press, and that’s what the media talks about, but your state and local governments, in many ways, have more impact on your life than the federal government does.
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And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene.
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Not all research is going to be turned into some new innovation, but there are some things that can be and that haven’t been, and I think the federal government has a proper role to play in doing that.
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Unfortunately, the liberal philosophy has created millions of people that way who believe everything they are or ever hope to be depends upon the federal government rather than the opportunities that this great country grants them.
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I believe the public’s confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers.
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Laws are getting passed in states like Alabama that basically would punish American citizens who are ‘harboring’ people. Since the federal government hasn’t been able to muster or to get comprehensive immigration reform passed, states are taking it upon themselves to police and enforce laws.
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I made a promise to Michael Brown‘s parents that I would do everything to bring all of the resources of the federal government to this investigation so that it is transparent; so that it is a viable investigation, and we get to the truth.
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A lot of the basic research that helped us figure out fracking came from the federal government.
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By the 1870s, ex-Confederates had taken their support for Western individualism a step further. They insisted the federal government was actively persecuting Western individuals.
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There is no constitutional basis for the federal government to be mandated to assist with student debt.
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The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money’s worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.
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Federal consent decrees – agreements between the federal government and a local agency to change how that agency operates – are burdensome, costly, and rarely justified.
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I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.
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General revenue – what taxpayers are willing to give government, what they think is fair to give government – is not going to grow at the same amount that the federal government basically forces us to spend on Medicaid.
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Since I got to Washington I’ve been working to make sure the federal government is doing what’s needed to strengthen Georgia‘s infrastructure and address supply chains issues impacting consumers and businesses across our state.
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Federal government has forced a one-size-fits-all model on our education system.
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No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution and laws of the Federal Government, as they are administered and as they affect the rights of the people.
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When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.
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We are a nation of borders and – I mean, that is one of the main things that the federal government is in charge with, and that is protecting the citizens of the United States and our whole nation.
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To suggest that immigration is the exclusive domain of the federal government, disallowing partnerships with local law enforcement, defies the will of Congress, not to mention reality. Numerous local jurisdictions have laws on the books dealing with immigration in a variety of ways.
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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.
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If you are born into a family below the national median income, we provide you with an additional $500, and for every contribution made to a child’s account below the national median income, we match it dollar for dollar – the federal government will.
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States are better equipped to serve students than the federal government, and we should direct funding to programs that have a demonstrated record of success.
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I advised the insurance companies to apply certain rate adjustments only to plans where the federal government provides assistance in order to save Montanans money and keep rates lower on other plans.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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The reason there are tens of thousands of lobbyists is because the ever-expanding federal government creates ever-increasing opportunities for abuse. The more the federal government does, the more lobbyists there will be to protect special interests at the expense of the common interest.
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If the federal government is so concerned with why people are deciding against having kids, maybe they should consider how little support and protection the middle class gets when it comes to being parents. Paid leave would be a good start, and increasing wages would also help.
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We have become bound by a political straitjacket that frames every debate: Too much federal government. Yet our forefathers forged this system for us. The federal government can accomplish what the states, acting alone or even in concert, cannot.
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I truly believe that we have the best health care system in the world. It’s not perfect, but this business of turning it over to the federal government to try to make it perfect is quite honestly asinine.
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It’s not, ‘We have a city to bid, now let’s go check in with the federal government’.
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I actually think that working in the federal government, or state or local, is one of the most significant things that a technical person can do.
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America has got the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in.
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The federal government is responsible for addressing how to address the status of the estimated 9 to 15 million people who are in the country illegally, but local and state law enforcement can be helpful partners in that regard.
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I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn’t want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.
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We are committed to keeping the Internet open and free, and we are now advocating for the federal government to make subsidies for low-income household telephone service available for broadband too, so that our residents can pay for service more easily.
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It’s federal jurisdiction, so the federal government can approve pipelines.
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We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we’re growing the private economy.
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While some of the critics are voicing legitimate concerns about the merits of a system of academic benchmarks, Common Core is frequently a straw man for the frustrations conservatives have with the federal government.
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Should the federal government be giving people cellphones?
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No matter how you slice it, limiting the SALT deduction forces New Jersey families to spend even more to subsidize Americans in less economically productive states, which take more than they ever give back to the federal government.
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But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.
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From the late 1940s, into and through the ’50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.
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Taking privacy cues from the federal government is – to say the least – ironic, considering today’s Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given time outside of one’s own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere.
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Once we secure our borders – and the federal government has not done a good job – then Congress, I believe, needs to take up the issue and look at how we try and identify those people that are here, that are national security risks to the United States.
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Do you know who the real hypocrite is? It’s the federal government and the Justice Department. It’s a fraud; it’s a lie. They have no interest in the education of black children. They are only interested in the politics of it.
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Besides the healthcare bill being unconstitutional and a great expansion of federal government, I think if it does not respect people’s individual religious views and makes groups or individuals do things that are contrary to their deeply held beliefs, there is going to be a visceral negative reaction.
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It’s time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government.
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But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government.
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I came to Washington primarily to meet other entrepreneurs. That being said, I was also curious to hear how our federal government was thinking about entrepreneurship.
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Just because technological advances have made it easier for the federal government to collect information doesn’t mean that our privacy rights can or should be violated on the ground or in the air.
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I have a responsibility as an elected governor to govern and when I say govern, that means to make sure that our citizens are safe and we need the federal government to step up and do their job. They need to secure our borders.
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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.
