The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government.
John L. Lewis

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

Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.
Donald Rumsfeld

In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back.
James Longstreet

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.
Jerry Falwell

My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.
Buffalo Bill

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.
Steve Forbes

All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
Earl Warren

I believe the way I describe the problems in Chicago is that it's a metropolitan area. I've said that everywhere. The uneducated child is not just my problem, it's the state's problem. It's also the federal government's problem.
Richard M. Daley

Well, the problem of the federal government is that they print money and go in debt. That's their national policy, Democrats and Republicans it doesn't matter. And this is where I differ.
Richard M. Daley

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

The American people depend on these federal employees to process, investigate, and adjudicate applications for immigration rights and benefits in a timely and thorough manner.
Joe Baca

We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.
Joe Baca

Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.
Jared Diamond

I am the Federal Government.
Tom DeLay

The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds.
Jeremy Rifkin

The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.
Jeremy Rifkin

So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.
Jeremy Rifkin

Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.
Jay Inslee

The first interview I went on I got at age 5. It was a commercial for First Federal Bank.
Erin Moran