Federal Government quotes

The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

From the late 1940s, into and through the ’50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.

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

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

We are not spending the Federal Government’s money, we are spending the taxpayer’s money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money’s worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.