

Federal Quotes
We have erased segregation in those areas of national life to which Federal authority clearly extends. So doing in this, my friends, we have neither sought nor claimed partisan credit, and all such actions are nothing more - nothing less than the rendering of justice.
Let's do in the federal Government only those things that people themselves cannot do at all, or cannot so well do in their individual capacities.
I firmly believe that the army of persons who urge greater and greater centralization of authority and greater and greater dependence upon the Federal Treasury are really more dangerous to our form of government than any external threat that can possibly be arrayed against us.
As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.
When we got into the Little Rock thing, it was not my province to talk about segregation or desegregation. I had the job of supporting a federal court that had issued a proper order under the Constitution, and where compliance was prevented by action that was unlawful.
Different departments tend to work in silos - each seems to be a government in itself. My effort has been to break these silos down, so that everybody looks at a problem in a collective manner. I see the federal government not as an assembled entity but as an organic entity.
We are spending altogether too much money for government services which are neither practical nor necessary. In addition to this, we are attempting too many functions and we need a simplification of what the Federal government is giving the people.
I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues in this campaign. In my opinion it is the most direct and effective contribution that Government can make to business.
Work must be found for able-bodied but destitute workers. The Federal Government must and shall quit this business of relief.
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