Federal Quotes - page 27

The liberals are fighting so hard whenever President Bush appoints any federal judges. (Steve Chabot)
As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream. View quote
Steve Forbes
I learned a couple things. The government can do to you whatever they want. They can break the laws, federal laws, as they see fit... You can't turn laws on and off as you deem fit. View quote
Steven Hatfill
Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children. View quote
Steven Rattner
Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health-care resources more prudently – rationing, by its proper name – the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget. View quote
Steven Rattner
I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think is overly generous. I've got self-imposed term limits of six terms if I have the privilege to serve that long. View quote
Scott Rigell
Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical. View quote
T.I.
Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states of the American Union must judge the constitutionality of the acts of their agent, the federal government, since no impartial arbiter between them exists. View quote
Thomas Woods
Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage? View quote
Tim Pawlenty
The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama. View quote
Tim Pawlenty
The reason that the unions and the other stakeholders have not cut a deal with the automakers is because they believe the federal government is going to bail them out. (Tim Pawlenty)
We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government. View quote
Tim Scott
My opponents will do anything they can to distract from their own flawed candidate. Bob Menendez is under federal criminal investigation. As far as I know, he is the only candidate for Senate under federal criminal investigation. View quote
Thomas Kean, Jr.
Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions. View quote
Vicente Fox
So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue. View quote
Vicente Fox
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. View quote
Winfield Scott Hancock
I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute. View quote
Zoe Lofgren
Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that's crashing. View quote
Steve Kluger
(T)he upsurge of violent racism in armed groups in America involves more than the United States Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. It now includes every police force in any city and county in America, the National Guard, federal agencies, and even some private ‘protective' groups. View quote
Carl Rowan
The Federal courts... surrendered to racist mob psychology as cravenly as any law officer ever did in the Reconstruction South under pressure from a lynch mob. Suddenly, mass bigotry was more dominant in the so called halls of justice in 1995 than it had been in 1955. View quote
Carl Rowan
Thus we have the spectacle, still to be seen today, of the western rancher who accepts federal aid for his cattle operations and federal aid for his grazing requirements, but bitterly opposes all social programs that do not concern him, and the philosophy that lies behind them. (Charles A. Reich)
Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq. View quote
Jay Inslee
They appear to have had a higher voter turnout in Iraq than we did in our recent federal elections, and we didnt have terrorists threatening to kill our families if we voted. View quote
Conrad Burns
Should an unwarrantable measure of the federal government be unpopular in particular States, which would seldom fail to be the case, or even a warrantable measure be so, which may sometimes be the case, the means of opposition to it are powerful and at hand. View quote
James Madison
Mr. MADISON observed that whatever reason might have existed for the equality of suffrage when the Union was a federal one among sovereign States, it must cease when a national Govermt. should be put into the place. View quote
James Madison