Quotes of: Federal-government Keyword

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

Ronald Reagan

Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.

Chris Chocola

The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal government is responsible for repairing the damage that has been done, which has not been completed yet.

Mitch Landrieu

We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.

Grover Norquist

After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.

Pat Toomey

But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

Don Nickles

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

Darrell Issa

I am the Federal Government.

Tom DeLay

I don't bow down to the federal government.

Joe Arpaio

Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism.

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

We should have a very limited federal government.

Paul Broun

I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.

Mike Quigley

I go where the revolution is, and the revolution is Ron Paul. Ron Paul is a champion of the Constitution. He's about getting rid of the Federal Reserve and shrinking federal government.

Christine Ebersole

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

James Q. Wilson

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

Alexander Hamilton

The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was to prevent any branch of the government from becoming too powerful.

Ezra Taft Benson

I do not believe we should shut down the federal government.

Ted Cruz

I'm saying the federal government is taking away the freedom of Americans to make choices.

Paul LePage

It is time to cut out the mountains of waste and inefficiency and duplication in the federal government.

Mitt Romney

The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.

Bob Schaffer