Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Chaffetz

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy.

Stewart Udall

Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility.

The process will take as much time as the process needs. CDOT officials and federal officials will run the process as they see fit.

Ultimately, all the federal government does is not going to be able to get the job done without your aid.

We are holding the federal government responsible, and specifically (Attorney General) Janet Reno and the president of the United States, for anything that may occur in this community,

David Phelps

We are heavily focused on the federal marketplace; it's 98 percent of our revenue.

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

Larry Wachtel

We remain in a stimulus vacuum and the underlying motif this week will be the Federal Reserve meeting next week.

Stephen Moore

What has been the fastest-growing federal tax imposed on middle-income Americans over the past 20 years?,

Charles Lindbergh

From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.

Since these are federal dollars, there's a whole lot of paperwork involved.

Sitting on the market has been this 800-pound gorilla, King Kong of the Federal Reserve, and when you remove this gorilla ... I think stocks can work their way higher.

She reiterated to us that the federal government is very proud of what Alberta is doing and they're not going to step in.

McCoy went back before the Senate in Washington, D.C., and testified in front of the Senate subcommittee and pushed for a federal anti-freeze law.

Medical research is needed, and I just saw there was a need for help that the government - state or federal - was not spending the taxpayers' money on helping people get through college.

Legislation introduced in Georgia is in violation of federal law.

Dalton McGuinty

So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.

She should make the highest allowable contribution. This year, the federal limit is $11,000, and it increases annually until it reaches $15,000 in 2005.

Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

Michael Chertoff

Unless it can be credibly established that a mobilizing Federal resource ... is not needed at the catastrophic incident venue, that resource deploys,

Kenneth Langone

I should not get Social Security. I think it's a travesty for a man of my success and of my means to get anything from the federal government.

Dan Lipinski

With the overall size of the federal marketplace expanding, we should be seeing opportunities opening up for our nation's small businesses.

We know we've got to have that 20 percent (to be used as the city's match for a federal 80 percent grant).

We've never been included in one minute of planning, even though it's required by federal law.

We want to make sure the revenue we receive from that route matches the 50 percent we receive from the federal government.

Irwin Redlener

We're seeing tremendous pressure at all levels to get ready for an imminent hurricane season, but on the federal level it seems frantic, not thoughtful.

Making good use of federal databases helps state programs immensely, but local information is invaluable. These are people who know these communities, they live and work there.

Right now, I think state and local governments are frustrated with the inaction of the federal government on illegal immigration.

But we're not a federal lobbying group. Our work is electoral.

But at least we have the federal judge saying he should be released.

New Orleans is what it is because the federal government made it that way. And what it is today -- underwater.

I give him a C-minus. It's better than we've had, but we've got a long way to go to get this federal fiscal house in order. ... I would give him a much higher grade if he had vetoed just one (spending) bill.