Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

David Vitter

I feel very strongly that we need a strong federal leader,

Jim Nabors

I feel the federal government can do a better job than the state.

I feel strongly that a ham sandwich with a scepter would be a fine Fed chairman. In fact, I think a ham sandwich with a scepter might do a better job because it wouldn't be politically motivated.

By staying disciplined with regard to inflationary policy, the Fed nips any inflationary expectations in the bud.

Jim Doyle

Gas prices are still at near record highs, many refineries are still off-line and supply has been disrupted. What is the federal government waiting for?

George H. W. Bush

good people of this part of the world that the federal government is going to help.

By the passage of the new rule, there is now one federal standard for manufacturers to meet.

High and rising utilization rates remain at the forefront of Fed inflation concerns.

Carl Guardino

He's singing our tune. Now the federal government has to put the money in the juke box.

I don't think in Illinois a foreign lawyer has been given that status before at the federal level.

Movements in the unemployment rate will tell Fed officials whether growth is absorbing unused capacity.

Moving forward, the Fed will be focused on what they can do to get us out of recession.

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.

My fellow Katrina survivors and I have experienced more tragedy in the last six months than most people have in a lifetime. We have lost relatives, friends and our community. The federal government should live up to its responsibility to rebuild.

One of the things the market wants to see is that the Fed is finished raising interest rates.

Mike Johanns

One of the things that I always say about bioterrorism, whether it's ourselves at the federal level, folks at the state level, or folks in the private industry, we've done many great things, especially since 9/11.

George H. W. Bush

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

David Jones

I think there will be one more quarter-point hike and then the Fed will go on hold for the rest of the year.

I think there's some pressure for the Fed to keep going over the near term.

Kevin Nolan

Jay-Jay got fed up of me shouting at him when he did his tricks,

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.

I think for all intent and purposes, you really have to rule out a Fed rate hike on October 5,

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.

That could lead the Fed to soften their statement tomorrow.

Laurence Meyer

That appointment got people scurrying back to their probability tables for the next Fed chairman, thinking the net might be wider and the person picked might be less credentialed, and that got people nervous.

Looking at where we are right now, I don't think the Fed raises rates until 2005.

It is fitting that the TTI study on traffic congestion is being released the same day that the federal surface transportation program known as TEA 21 expires.

That would support the idea that the Fed can stop raising rates soon.

That was the turning point of the game. We really fed off that play.

That was an upside surprise in the headline PPI index. That's going to keep the Federal Reserve on track in raising interest rates at an incremental pace,