Federal Government Quotes

Federal Government Quote of the day

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

Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.

Most of the federal government could be shut down.

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.

Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other nation.

Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.

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.

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.

I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers.

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

If the Tenth Amendment were still taken seriously, most of the federal government's present activities would not exist. That's why no one in Washington ever mentions it.

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts

If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.

The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.

When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that’s tyranny.

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

The federal government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle, that it can exercise only the powers granted to it . . . is now universally admitted.

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

I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government.

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.

The federal government is our servant, not our master.

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.

When the state or federal government controls the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security.

The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.

One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.

As Americans we must always remember that we all have a common enemy, an enemy that is dangerous, powerful, and relentless. I refer, of course, to the federal government.

Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

I don't bow down to the federal government.

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.

The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its jurisdiction.

The federal government views the Constitution as its enemy.

The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land.

The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.

It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government, and I'm here to help."

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

On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.

I am not going to use the federal government's authority deliberately to circumvent the natural inclination of people to live in ethnic homogeneous neighborhoods.

What the USA Freedom Act did is it did two things. Number one, it ended the federal government's bulk collection of phone metadata of millions of law-abiding citizens.

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

Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost every aspect of American life.

In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.

Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.