Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is where we're talking about federal government and rapid response. And those two normally don't go together.

Rosa DeLauro

This is what the federal government ought to be doing, ... This is what government is about.

This kind of major public works project has to be a state and federal partnership.

They do it from the heart. They don't get any funding for it from the state or federal government.

They didn't want to do a quarter point and then have everyone wonder all month what they were going to do in December. The Fed wanted to take itself out of the picture. Merry Christmas, we're done.

Herbert Croly

So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.

Mike Moran

If housing is sliding, the Fed will have to step up its aggressiveness.

I feel like our federal immigration system is broken, and we are not going to fix it with this bill.

I can't spend the federal money first. It's a short-term loan to spend their money so we can get the federal money.

I don't think that's particularly out of the ordinary. Every underground mine must be inspected four times a year in its entirety. There is a federal inspector there every day the mine is operating.

I don't see this as an inherently dollar-positive statement. We'll see much greater uncertainty around the Fed at least until the next meeting because this statement is so flexible.

I don't think anybody's looking at the Fed meeting because nothing's going to happen there for God knows how long. I think next week you're looking for a continuation of what we saw today... I think you just might get the feeling that there is some good news on the horizon and that the possibility of this market doing better is very, very high.

I don't see much risk of inflation, partly because the Fed will do whatever it needs to do to keep it low.

Conrad Black

I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.

CSC has a long presence in government systems integration and outsourcing. By contrast, EDS is keeping its military work to a small percentage of the total, and IBM sold its Federal Systems division." ()

CSC has a long presence in government systems integration and outsourcing, ... By contrast, EDS is keeping its military work to a small percentage of the total, and IBM sold its Federal Systems division." ()

Fed officials have given no indication that they will pause at this meeting. But they may indicate in the statement that they are preparing to pause at the November meeting.

Federal money should be where the marketplace isn't working.

Federal law is supreme, and the state proposition, notwithstanding, is meaningless.

Fed policy may be shifting slightly to a longer period of rising rates, and that will hurt sentiment for shares.

Ferguson is very operationally oriented. I think that's a role the Fed needs, but I'm not sure that's what administration is looking to put into the top spot.

Jason Chaffetz

Every time we spend a federal dollar, what we're doing is we're pulling money out of somebody's pocket, and we're giving it to somebody else.

Robert Kiyosaki

Every time the Fed implements 'quantitative easing,' a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost.

Brian Reynolds

Everyone was reaching for yield. When the Fed first tightened, people were surprised as heck.

Michael Nutter

We need sensible gun safety measures. The federal government could do something about this; they could show up.

This speaks to very robust underlying momentum in the economy, which is one of the reasons why the Fed will have to keep going.

This (New York) survey suggests that the manufacturing slowdown is more gradual than had been expected. The more reliable Philadelphia Fed survey out Thursday will provide a better read.

Marc Chandler

We should be looking at a Fed statement that increases the view of a March rate hike, and our view is that fed funds will be 5 percent by mid-year.

Theresa Grentz

We did a good job with the inside-outside game in the first half to get some open looks from the perimeter. Lori knocked down her first shot from about 22-feet and that got her going. From there, everyone else just fed off her confidence.

The wife is being held on federal charges. I can't really speak to those charges.

They actually match up pretty good. We use the same process, which comes from federal mandates.

What can the Fed do about WorldCom? This is not an interest rate problem. This is not something they should be involved with, ... I'm sorry, Wall Street, but you can't look to the Fed to save you when they don't have the tools to save you on this one.

What the Fed told us today is, we don't think we are done yet and we are not sure when we will be done.