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Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism.
— Paul Broun
It is proper that the federal government help alleviate short-term disruptions and price spikes such as those brought about by Hurricane Katrina.
— Mel Martinez
Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic.
— Russ Feingold
Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.
— Bell Hooks
If we're the country that makes Amazon and Facebook and Twitter, why can't the federal government have websites and digital services that are awesome?
— Megan Smith
The Federal Government is achieving its stated goal of helping more minorities go from being renters to being owners.
— Bill Dedman
The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.
— Preston Manning
In addition to higher pay, federal government employment is far more secure than private-sector employment.
— Jason Chaffetz
As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security.
— Andrew Card
I think the governors would all agree that what we don't want from the federal government is unfunded mandates.
— James Douglas
The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.
— Thomas Jefferson
The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.
— Bob Barr
The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.
— Bob Etheridge
I'm saying the federal government is taking away the freedom of Americans to make choices.
— Paul LePage
It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.
— Rick Perry
Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.
— Jay Inslee
I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government.
— Joe Arpaio
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.
— Winfield Scott Hancock
Your federal government needs your money so that it can perform vital services for you that you would not think up yourself in a million years.
— Dave Barry
It actually turns out to be much harder to really understand government across state local and federal.
— Steve Ballmer
The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.
— Harlan F. Stone
Under Howard, federal government support for black Australia slowly dried up. Services were slashed, native title restricted.
— Richard Flanagan
I believe the states can best govern our home concerns and the federal government our foreign ones.
— Thomas Jefferson
The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.
— Thomas Vilsack
The economy grows when families can spend money on personal priorities rather than priorities imposed by the federal government.
— Mike Crapo
The best solution would be for the federal government to say, 'Yes, we do provide coverage and it's from day one.'
— Andrew P. Harris
But at its most official heart, the U.S. Dollar is simply the "I.O.U. a Dollar's worth of Tax credit" promise of our sovereign Federal Government.
— J.D. ALT
America is now a socialist economy. The definition of a socialist economy is when 50% or more of your economy is dependent on the federal government.
— Christine O'Donnell
I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.
— Darrell Issa
The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land (in the Western states).
— Andrew Napolitano
It is time to cut out the mountains of waste and inefficiency and duplication in the federal government.
— Mitt Romney
Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.
— Charles A. Beard
The fact of the matter is that hope comes from many sources. I think depending on the federal government to be some sort of a savior is false hope.
— Tim Scott
Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.
— Sidney Blumenthal
We need sensible gun safety measures. The federal government could do something about this; they could show up.
— Michael Nutter
The Federal Government is the people and the budget is a reflection of their need.
— John F. Kennedy
Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.
— Rick Perry
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, although they're not officially debt of the federal government, they are off-balance-sheet debt.
— John Thune
Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.
— Llewellyn Rockwell
Not only is it possible to do lean startup in federal government, but it's the most effective way to drive change in the federal government.
— Todd Park
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.
— Claire McCaskill
American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas.
— Nikki Haley
I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
— Gustav Heinemann
The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.
— Pierre Trudeau
We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.
— William Rehnquist
Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.
— Timothy Noah
In some environments, safety and truth are natural born enemies. I would think a former employee of the federal government could grasp that concept.
— Blake Crouch
It is the policy of the federal government to use all resources at its disposal to make our financial system stronger.
— Henry Paulson
We [Federal Government] have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.
— Henry Morgenthau Jr.
We should have a very limited federal government.
— Paul Broun
Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?
— Richard M. Daley
There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.
— Ted Nugent
If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it's an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.
— Ezra Klein
We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government.
— Ronald Reagan
The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if they can make women fertile after menopause.
— Patricia Schroeder
There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action.
— Millicent Fenwick
The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.
— James Bovard
It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
— Carly Fiorina
The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.
— Ronald Reagan
Federal government shutdowns are unsettling, because you realize how little you depend on it compared to the money you give in taxes.
— Roosh V
It's time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government.
— Rick Perry
As far as cutting jobs, you could cut whole agencies out of the federal government and not miss them.
— Wayne Rogers
My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I can write murder mysteries.
— Grover Norquist
My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government.
— Barack Obama
The fundamental challenge is that people like me simply do not trust the federal government any longer.
— Chris Stewart
But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.
— James Q. Wilson
The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.
— Laurence Tribe
Disaster management should be coordinated by the federal government, .. It is our exact responsibility.
— Alcee Hastings
All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts.
— John Walters
Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that's crashing.
— Steve Kluger
We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
— Al Sharpton
I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
— Pat Toomey
The federal government is doing less than it is lawfully entitled to do to protect New York City, and the City is less safe as a result.
— Raymond Kelly
The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.
— Orrin Hatch
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.
— Nan Hayworth
Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again.
— Grover Cleveland
Arizona seeks only to enforce the nominal immigration policy of the United States. Perhaps the federal government should try it sometime.
— Rich Lowry
I would absolutely never use the federal government to enforce the law of using marijuana
— Ron Paul
There is so much chaos and dysfunction going on with the federal government that Dallas can't wait any longer for federal help.
— Laura Miller
Texas has done a very good job of securing their borders with the help of the federal government. California has done a good job.
— Jan Brewer
They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.
— George W. Bush
Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
— Ed Rendell
Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Quebecers have rarely in their history been better represented than they are right now-at the highest levels of the federal government.
— Kim Campbell
There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime. That is not an exaggeration.
— John Baker