All Quotes

The Federal appropriations process is a marathon, not a sprint, and we are at the beginning of that process.
‐‐ Jim Walsh

The Federal Communications Commission licensed satellite radio to be a national-only radio service.
‐‐ Gene Green

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.
‐‐ Daniel Keys Moran

The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.
‐‐ Orrin Hatch

The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.
‐‐ Bob Etheridge

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

The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.
‐‐ Lou Barletta

The federal government has gone too far on many nonessential regulations that are harming small businesses. Employers are rightly concerned about the costs of these regulations - so they stop hiring, stop spending, and start saving for a bill from the federal government.
‐‐ Sam Graves

The federal government has invested billions in Metro, yet the system is not safe and is not reliable.
‐‐ Sam Graves

The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are.
‐‐ Michael Steele

The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.
‐‐ Andy Rooney

The Federal Government is achieving its stated goal of helping more minorities go from being renters to being owners.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

The federal government is doing less than it is lawfully entitled to do to protect New York City, and the City is less safe as a result.
‐‐ Raymond Kelly

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.
‐‐ James Bovard

The federal government is far larger than the Founding Fathers ever intended it to be. We have racked up over $16 trillion of debt through wasteful spending, and it is time that we cut that waste and start reducing the size of our government.
‐‐ Matt Salmon

The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the federal income tax, was ratified through fraud.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

The federal government... knows how to put a missile in someone's room half way around the world with technology. Why don't we use some of that technology to save some lives here in America?
‐‐ Michael Nutter

The federal government needs a strategic approach that includes strong leadership and the ability to manage weather related risks. The challenge of developing such an approach is complex: It must not only encompass all levels of government but must also be developed in a bipartisan manner.
‐‐ Matt Cartwright

The federal government needs to get off the backs of small businesses and let the private sector grow and create jobs instead of harnessing it with onerous regulations and a repressive tax code.
‐‐ Matt Salmon

The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That's done, as people know, in their own communities. The siting decisions and the permitting is done at the local level, or by state governments if it's interstate in nature. And federal government - this is one area we have no authority.
‐‐ Spencer Abraham

The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.
‐‐ Mitch Daniels

The federal government's role is to establish a process whereby industry can pitch a project, and Canadians can be reassured that this project is worth the risk. That's at the heart of governments granting permits and communities granting permission. People understand we do need economic growth. We do need natural resource projects.
‐‐ Justin Trudeau

The federal government secures the border; Californians decide how we want to treat our population. I think we need a vibrant guest worker program. If we have one, we're going to stop having a lot of issues at the border.
‐‐ Elizabeth Emken

The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.
‐‐ Dennis Hastert

The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.
‐‐ Donald Rumsfeld

The federal government should end its policies of economic warfare against the United States and allow our nation to develop all its energy resources to the fullest, both for domestic use and for export.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

The federal government should not be an accessory to the unconstitutional actions of the Arizona state government. By continuing to work with Arizona police departments operating under SB 1070, the Department is implicitly condoning the shameful tactics authorized by the new law.
‐‐ Lucille Roybal-Allard

The federal government should not be in the business of initiating and administering short-term incentive programs designed to shape consumer purchase behavior.
‐‐ John Quelch

The federal government should only be providing services for emergencies. You and I, taxpayers, shouldn't be paying for cell phones so someone can have a social life. I just don't think it's appropriate.
‐‐ Timothy Griffin

The federal government spends about $2.51 per child per day to feed them lunch. Out of that, you have to pay for labor, facilities, and administrative costs, leaving about a dollar for food. Imagine trying to feed yourself a nutritious meal every day with only a dollar. Very difficult.
‐‐ Jose Andres

The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.
‐‐ Pat Paulsen

The federal government spends nearly half a trillion dollars on contracted goods and services; therefore, we must ensure that the money is being spent efficiently, and small businesses have proven that they can do quality work cheaper and often faster.
‐‐ Sam Graves

The federal government was created to defend the United States, not to wage war upon it.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

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

The Federal Highway Administration has allowed states to take advantage of a loophole in federal regulations, delaying bridge inspections to every four years instead of the two years normally required.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is committed to policies that promote maximum employment and price stability, consistent with our mandate from Congress.
‐‐ Janet Yellen

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.
‐‐ Bobby Scott

The federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act passed unanimously in the House, won 97 votes in the Senate, and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton. Twenty states have passed their own versions of this law, and 11 additional ones have religious-liberty protections that state courts have interpreted to provide a similar level of protection.
‐‐ Edwin Meese

The Federal Reserve Act requires the Federal Reserve to report annually on its operations and to publish its balance sheet weekly.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve - all of them - could be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, and then pouring gasoline on top of it, and then light a cigar with matches, throw the match into the gasoline, and then not notice that there is any danger.
‐‐ Marc Faber

The Federal Reserve can only buy Treasuries and agencies, and moreover quantitative easing typically involves buying longer-term Treasuries and agencies in terms of bills, for example.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve cannot solve all the economy's problems on its own.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

The Federal Reserve has always recognized the importance of allowing markets to work, and government oversight of financial firms will never be fully effective without the aid of strong market discipline.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment... the European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The Federal Reserve has never suffered any losses in the course of its normal lending to banks and, now, to primary dealers.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve has the responsibility to protect the credit rights of consumers.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

The Federal Reserve, like other central banks, wields powerful tools; democratic accountability requires that the public be able to see how and for what purposes those tools are being used.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke