Federal Quotes - page 31

I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year. (Carly Fiorina)
Obviously the Senate is a federal office, but to get California's economy moving again we need to do some things in the federal arena. View quote
Carly Fiorina
Californians are worried about whether they will have a job along with ballooning federal spending and deficits. View quote
Carly Fiorina
Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account. View quote
Carly Fiorina
In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions. View quote
Janet Yellen
The central question is whether Medicare and Medicaid should remain entitlement programs guaranteeing a certain amount of care, as Democrats believe, or become defined contribution programs in which federal spending is capped, as Republicans suggest. View quote
Christina Romer
The Obama administration's plan is to have the Federal Reserve regulate banks that might pose a 'systemic risk' if they were to fail. View quote
Thomas Frank
The architects of the Constitution had the intention of making a republican and federal government which would endure with stability, insure justice, promote the general welfare and be proof against usurpation, either by the few and the rich or by the poor and the many. For the founding of a republic they had guides. For a federal system they had none. But they thoroughly believed that help could be found in the successes and failures of the past. They knew all about the ‘class struggle'-so, for that matter, did the Greek philosophers, although you would think from our young socialist friends that Karl Marx was the first person ever to notice it. They knew all about Fascism and its causes, although they called it by another name. View quote
Dorothy Thompson
You can look at that by comparing Medicare's growth rates to the private insurance world, to the other Federal programs that we run, by looking at the billions of dollars, not millions but billions of dollars, we waste every year. View quote
Bobby Jindal
An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project. View quote
Aravind Adiga
!--This guy is not who he says he is. None of his bills, none of his proposals are about what he says they're about. -->The health care bill is reparations. It's the beginning of reparations. He's going to give - if you want to go into medical school, the medical schools will get more federal dollars if they have proven that they are putting minorities ahead. (Glenn Beck)
Today we must develop federal structures on a global level. View quote
Walter Cronkite
My preference is for the Federal Reserve to be the systemic risk regulator, because the responsibility for identifying and limiting potential problems is a natural complement to its role in monetary policy. View quote
Henry Paulson
It is the policy of the federal government to use all resources at its disposal to make our financial system stronger. View quote
Henry Paulson
If you work for the federal government, the average salary is $7,000 higher than the private sector. Something's wrong with that, when you're making more money working for the government than you can working in the private sector. View quote
Jesse Ventura
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield. View quote
Earl Warren
I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available. View quote
Jerry Falwell
Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
Well, the chairman of Federal Reserve just made his move to rescue Barack Obama. We're gonna have QE3. We're gonna print some more money. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
You cannot keep your plan and have Obamacare at the same time. Obamacare, by definition, gets rid of your plan and replaces it with health care run by the federal government. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector. (Rush Limbaugh)
‎"I feel certain that Conservatism is through unless Conservatives can demonstrate and communicate the difference between being concerned with [the unemployed, the sick without medical care, human welfare, etc.] and believing that the federal government is the proper agent for their solution. View quote
Barry Goldwater
...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. View quote
Barry Goldwater
Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society. View quote
Carl Bernstein
Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner. View quote
George McGovern