Famous Quotes & Sayings

Given the president's gaping political wounds from Katrina, you're seeing the federal government weighing in with overwhelming force and supplies. The system is energized this time.

If it does happen, it'll be over time. It's not going to be like losing 1,000 oil industry jobs in Anchorage or even 1,000 federal jobs.

If the federal government would have responded as quickly as Wal-Mart, we could have saved more lives.

Richard Pombo

If the federal government comes and takes someone's land, we all pay for it, ... If we take land to make a wildlife refuge, we pay for it. No one's down here screaming that's (the government's) entitlement.

David Fine

If the ruling is simply that nothing in federal law prohibits mid-decade redistricting, that will not help them.

If this (the discrimination decision) was made by a federal court, and not a federal agency, we might look at it differently,

Gary Johnson

I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.

Alcee Hastings

Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years.

Jean Charest

The program is more generous that what the federal program used to be, and it is very, very good news for parents and for young families,

I don't think the federal government should be involved in making life work, right? I mean, the enumerated powers - the state level is fine. The local level's fine. But not - I do not want the federal government trying to make my life work.

Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing.

(The grants) are one of many things we're doing to try to revive the downtown. It funnels money received from state or federal government to individual property owners performing restoration or improvements on the fronts of their buildings.

Brad Johnson

Tuition is out-pacing inflation ridiculously. The problem is the federal government hasn't picked up the slack.

The governor feels, as a commander-in-chief from a state that has fully supported the federal mobilizations that the president has requested from Connecticut, it is simply a policy that doesn't make sense.

There are less funds from the federal government.

Fay Vincent

The players are protected under the federal statutes. That's a mistake a lot of people have made, thinking the commissioner can do whatever he wants. His powers over the players are very limited.

Harry Reid

While other nations have ordered enough antiviral medication to treat between 20 and 40 percent of their populations, the federal government has only ordered enough to treat less than 2 percent of Americans,

Jason Chaffetz

We have got a - we've got a good federal work force, but we have too many people, and we're paying them too much money.

We already had all of our first-responder teams pre-deployed -- 32 teams in all -- who went in and staged in and around the hurricane zone and were ready to go by Sunday. This is deployment that requires that the governor make a request to the federal government.

We're such a small player at the federal level. We're kind of a small fish in that sea.

We think the states and the federal government now have a joint solution.

Alan Greenspan

We at the Federal Reserve have greatly benefited from his perspective and keen insights.

Chuck Grassley

When people from Iowa take the initiative to improve their communities, it is important for the federal government to support their efforts.

Brian McDonald

We think that federal law trumps what's in state law. You would not have to put this to a vote.

People are being terrorized by federal police working hand-in-glove with local officials and militias.

Ricardo Rodriguez

Our job is to prevent crime, not to investigate drug trafficking. That's the federal government's responsibility.

James Johnson

Our hope is that the rallies will get the federal government to pass comprehensive immigration reform to provide secure borders, and by providing secure borders, it allows for portals for immigration into this country.

George H. W. Bush

I think the most important thing government can do is provide flexibility for federal monies.

Dick Cheney

I think different states are likely to come to different conclusions and that's appropriate. I don't think there should necessarily be a federal policy in this area.

Carlos Marin

I think federal funds will be very limited.

Some people are mad that I 'let' the federal government set up this operation in the town, ... I didn't really have a choice.

It all could be linked up after the fact, and that was enough to lead to the federal policy.

It could reflect the return of people's traditional skepticism of federal power. Or perhaps as memories of 9/11 recede, they could just be thinking the government is going too far.