“I am the Federal Government”
to a waitress who asked him to put out his cigar because smoking in a restaurant in Washington is against Federal law.[citation needed]
2000s
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“The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.”
Part 4, 1979 - 1984 "Welcome to the 1980's", p. 290
Memoirs (1993)
Speaking of "some [people] in Washington", and in support of his campaign plan to allow workers to invest some portion of their Social Security payroll taxes. Campaign stop, November 2, 2000. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/04/us/the-2000-campaign-the-vice-president-attacks-grow-sharp-as-time-dwindles.html
2000s, 2000
“I don't think the federal government has a role in your children's education.”
2011-08-16T15:28
Rick Perry: 'I Don't Think The Federal Government Has A Role' In Education
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Keyes
Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/08/16/297174/perry-vs-education/
posed question: "I would like to know your position on the federal government's role in my children's education."
2011
“I had been struck by the amateurism that reigned in the upper echelons of the federal government.”
Part 2, 1968 - 1974 Power And Responsibility, p. 107
Memoirs (1993)
Context: When I had been appointed to the Cabinet in 1967, I had been struck by the amateurism that reigned in the upper echelons of the federal government.
“What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.”
Address at Arlington National Cemetery (30 May 1925), in Foundations of the Republic https://archive.org/stream/foundationsofrep00unit/foundationsofrep00unit_djvu.txt (1926), Coolidge, Ayer Publishing, p. 228.
1920s
The Hoover Policies (1937)
“The Federal Government must and shall quit this business of relief.”
1930s, State of the Union Address (1935)
Context: The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fibre. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America. Work must be found for able-bodied but destitute workers. The Federal Government must and shall quit this business of relief.