Republicans controlled the federal government for decades after the Civil War, and their policies funneled wealth upward -- with dire consequences. In… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal government is responsible for repairing the… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
Class warfare or soaking the so-called rich may make for good populist demagoguery and serve the political ends of the governing masterminds,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from… — Mary Landrieu Copy Share Image
Perhaps sensing the dismal failure of its efforts to show that 'established by the State' means 'established by the State or the… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
During the whole month that negroes were being beaten by police and washed down the sewer with water hoses, Kennedy and -… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The federal government has the responsibility to protect the nation's public health, to protect us from foreign threats. And it [Zika] really… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I am tired of fighting state by state, county by county, city by city, for fractions of equality. I am tired of… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Our message will be that we're going to make federal government buildings a model - an energy-efficient model - and also start… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
“The feckless President Buchanan, who opposed secession, thought the federal government powerless to stop it, and in his last annual message blamed… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I think, again, on issues of energy, how are we going to fully utilize our energy resources in this country? What is… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“More than 70 percent of the American people believe that students should have a chance at a debt-free education. • Nearly three-quarters of… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The federal government is far larger than the Founding Fathers ever intended it to be. We have racked up over $16 trillion… — Matt Salmon Copy Share Image
State constitutions typically provide that the state first has to service its debt, then make it pension payments, and then pay for… — Eugene Fama Copy Share Image
I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
It is unacceptable that private groups working tirelessly to save lives in Afghanistan have hit bureaucratic roadblocks and red tape prohibiting them… — Young Kim Copy Share Image
It's a whole different attitude toward public service than it once was. I tell you, we can all sit around in our… — Paul Volcker Copy Share Image
“The federal government hated it when people tried to move outside its sphere of control, no matter the reason. It was incapable… — Christopher Nuttall Copy Share Image
Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining. Copper is huge here, and now uranium. And then we have the federal government… — Jan Brewer Copy Share Image
I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
Some members of Congress will claim that the federal government needs the power to monitor Americans in order to allow the government… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The federal government should encourage rather than micromanage market reform in all 50 states. Since health care is local, private-sector innovation in… — Ron Williams Copy Share Image
I get so ticked off at you intellectually lazy people who think that the government is God, that every dollar they get… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We cannot have policies that punish people for taking action. Imagine the further harm it would have caused if the federal government… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
There are over 170,000 pages of regulations in Washington, D.C. I want to streamline the rules in the federal government to basically… — Jason T. Smith Copy Share Image
It began to really eat away with me that in the '60s the federal government, desiring to help poor moms who were… — Louie Gohmert Copy Share Image
I grew up in Pittsburgh, where you couldn't even see the noon sun in the sky, and that whole city was cleaned… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If the federal government has the exclusive right to judge the extent of its own powers, warned the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions'… — Thomas Woods Copy Share Image
We can't be playing around with these issues [Zika disease], because this can become very serious very quickly, as we have seen… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The federal government turns away thousands of applicants to AmeriCorps every year. Our service men and women returning from overseas want to… — Neil Bush Copy Share Image
Not surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. Judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers envisioned a federal government that trusts its people with their money and freedom, outlining this limited, non-intrusive federal government… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
What I have said is that I think the federal government and we as a society have come too far in trying… — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
I am designating a new Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers to cut through red tape and ensure that the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
To put it in context, the federal government was, at the beginning [of the Vancouver meeting], talking about a $15-per-tonne floor for… — Christy Clark Copy Share Image
Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government Institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people… — Louis Thomas McFadden Copy Share Image
![“The federal government has the responsibility to protect the nation's public health, to protect us from foreign threats. And it [Zika] really is an illness that we are seeing arrive from abroad. So it is a threat to public health, and it is the federal government's job to cooperate in this.” quote by Marco Rubio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/943/marco-rubio-355_federal-government_the-federal-government-has-the-responsib_1163211.jpg)
![“We can't be playing around with these issues [Zika disease], because this can become very serious very quickly, as we have seen in Brazil and other countries. The funds are going to be used at the state level, but it is important for the federal government to cooperate in the federal government's…” quote by Marco Rubio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/756/marco-rubio-355_brazil_we-can-t-be-playing-around-with-these-is_626067.jpg)
![“To put it in context, the federal government was, at the beginning [of the Vancouver meeting], talking about a $15-per-tonne floor for carbon emissions. We're at $30 a tonne, so we're already double that. But our economy is growing at a faster rate - three per cent of GDP is our projected growth…” quote by Christy Clark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/84e/christy-clark-24327_british_to-put-it-in-context-the-federal-governm_720204.jpg)
