Top 1200 Federal Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Whistleblowers deserve protection, but employees are not federal agents.

It's the federal government's job to secure the border.

There is no such thing as a federal personhood bill.

Being from Arizona, the federal government is kind of a Slytherin.

I worked as a federal prosecutor in New Jersey.

I support ensuring that committed gay couples have the same rights and responsibilities afforded to any married couple in this country. I believe strongly in stopping laws designed to take rights away and passing laws that extend equal rights to gay couples. I've required all agencies in the federal government to extend as many federal benefits as possible to LGBT families as the current law allows. And I've called on Congress to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act and to pass the Domestic Partners Benefits and Obligations Act.

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

I have long been in favor of a balanced budget restriction at the level of the federal government of the United States. Because the federal government has money-creating powers it can, in fact, be very damaging if it runs a series of budget deficits. With the state government in the United States, they don't have money-creating powers. The automatic discipline imposed by the fact that they are in a common monetary unit and don't have control over the money power means that the balanced budget restriction is less needed.

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government

I do not believe we should shut down the federal government.

It (marijuana) will still be legal under federal law.

The Federal Reserve is answerable to no one.

I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.

Most of the federal government could be shut down.

I don't go to the federal government and say, 'Fund my program.'

[The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods.

The federal government is basically an insurance company with an army.

It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.

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

Not federal government's job to do good deeds.

The Federal Government is the people and the budget is a reflection of their need.

The Federal Reserve has the responsibility to protect the credit rights of consumers.

Federal spending is atrocious.

If you hurt your knee, honestly, I'd rather have the federal government focused on North Korea, focused on other things than your knee, OK, or than your back, as important as your back is. I would much rather see the federal government focused on other things, bigger things.

I am the federal government!

One hundred and fifty years ago the vacant lands of the West were opened to private use. One hundred years ago the Congress passed the Homestead Act, probably the single greatest stimulus to national development ever enacted. Under the impetus of that Act and other laws, more than 1.1 billion acres of the original public main have been transferred to private and non-federal public ownership. The 768 million acres remaining in federal ownership are a valuable national asset.

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

We are way overstepping bounds as federal legislators.

There's no hidden secrets going on in the Federal Reserve...

All of those loan programs that the federal government administers have flaws.

The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

The federal government views the Constitution as its enemy.

The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.

Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years.

We should have a very limited federal government.

Should the federal government be giving people cellphones?

Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.

Roll back federal spending to 2008 levels.

I think the role of the Federal Reserve is enormously exaggerated.

It turns out that in the federal government, there are a lot of innovators.

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

Once created, federal programs are nearly impossible to eliminate.

Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?

...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the development of an 'informer' psychology in great areas of our national life-neighbors spying on neighbors, workers spying on workers, business spying on businessmen-were those who would harass their fellow citizens for selfish and narrow purposes will have ample inducement to do so. These, the Federal police force an 'informer' psychology, are the hallmarks of the police state and landmarks in the destruction of a free society.

I cracked a child prostitution ring - I'd worked with three vice cops every day for months, out on the street, in the cold, trying to track down the pervs and the young girls being prostituted.We finally got the convictions.Six or seven months later, I was working, and I glanced up at the TV, and it was a report on a federal case.It was all three of them, in federal court, in handcuffs. Every time they busted a drug lord or a doper, they'd take all their money and their jewelry and flat screens before sending them to jail. They had been stealing from dopers for years!

I am the Federal Government.

Federal resources are vital to the health of our HBCUs.

Obamacare is, quite simply, the federal version of Romneycare.

There is no federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage.

The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.

All the Federal Reserve can do is make loans against collateral.

Expose widespread waste and duplication in federal spending.

The federal government is way larger than it should be.

The No. 1 purpose of the federal government is national defense.

I know this, the Federal Reserve is private and the I.R.S. is screwing us.

There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a right to demand judicial consideration of newly discovered evidence of innocence brought forward after conviction. My concern is that in making life easier for ourselves we not appear to make it harder for the lower federal courts, imposing upon them the burden of regularly analyzing newly-discovered-evidence-of-innocence claims in capital cases (in which event such federal claims, it can confidently be predicted, will become routine and even repetitive).

I don't bow down to the federal government.

Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.

You can hear the hunger in my voice on 'Federal 3x.'

When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it.