Federal government Quotes · Page 5

“Most funding for American scientific research comes from the federal government (your tax dollars at work).”

— Robert M. Hazen

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

— Calvin Coolidge

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

— Milton Friedman

We can't expect Wall Street to police itself - that's why we have a federal government.

— Martin O'Malley

The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.

— Frederick Douglass

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

— George W. Bush

There is no constitutional basis for the federal government to be mandated to assist with student debt.

— Darryl Glenn

You can provide better services for less if you get the federal government out of the way.

— Mick Mulvaney

While the federal government is required by law to document publicly its wiretapping of phone lines, it is not required to do…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

We have provided capital here with a couple of institutions recently. The Federal government did that in the '30s for the RFC…

— Warren Buffett

The federal government has an exceptionally poor record of behaving responsibly with Americans' personal information when entrusted with it.

— Jared Polis

The majority of ground in the U.S. is owned by the federal government, and right now, very little of it is accessible…

— Sam Graves

By the 1870s, ex-Confederates had taken their support for Western individualism a step further. They insisted the federal government was actively persecuting…

— Heather Cox Richardson

It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance…

— Alan Dershowitz

We already have two branches of federal government that factor political considerations into their decision-making, and our Founding Fathers determined long ago…

— Thom Tillis

Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

There are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers…

— Frederick Douglass

The federal government and our democracy is not a speedboat. It's an oceanliner, as I discovered when I came into office. It…

— Barack Obama

The first outbreak of America's 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation's…

— Brendan I. Koerner

This was a theme of Sen. Akaka's career - to advocate for people who did not have power, for people who were…

— Brian Schatz

Millions of Americans were duped by the federal government and the Federal Reserve into buying homes they could not afford and failed…

— Mark Skousen

I agree that marijuana laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of marijuana -- if it's prescribed…

— Abigail Van Buren

The federal government is responsible for addressing how to address the status of the estimated 9 to 15 million people who are…

— Tim Pawlenty

Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both…

— Joseph Sobran

[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Gorsuch, who is a U.S. Supreme Court nominee in the United States, said the real test of law is when a government…

— Cindy Blackstock

The president mentioned a couple of other ideas I'll just note. First, education. I agree: Education is key, particularly the future of…

— Mitt Romney

“Giving up animal fats has also meant shifting over to vegetable oils, and over the past century the share of these oils…

— Nina Teicholz

The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against…

— G. William Domhoff

I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Millions of people around the world suffer daily from the harmful health and environmental impacts caused by indoor cooking fires and inefficient…

— Nancy Sutley

“Some families evicted from the Flats settled in a segregated development, also created by the federal government, that later opened on the…

— Richard Rothstein

We actually do need a federal government, but we need a limited one.

— Ron Johnson

Let's shrink the federal government and return power to the states.

— Doug Burgum

The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.

— Mike Pompeo

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

— Mitch Daniels

Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that's crashing.

— Steve Kluger

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

— Todd Akin

I'm just not sure I trust the federal government not to trample on civil liberties.

— Tucker Carlson

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

— Preston Manning