Feds Quotes

With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds some figures higher up the food-chain. - Joshua Micah Marshall

When you go to Washington, you get no satisfaction. You come back and you put in an amount of money -- half of which is supposed to come from the feds -- what are we doing here? - Don Perata

We may need some clarification, but it gives me the authority now to arrest everybody involved in that situation and not have to rely on the feds. - Joe Arpaio

We haven't been reimbursed yet because we haven't applied and we haven't applied because the feds haven't told us what the process is to be reimbursed. - Dick Powers

We had gunfire up and down here. We had looters over here. We drove in with a bus. We had people jumping in the windows stealing stuff. We had one gasoline truck that was commandeered by the feds when it was coming in the other day. But from our perspective, the easiest thing for us was to get everything up and rolling. - Kevin Regan

Three hundred million is a tiny drop in the bucket. It's really nothing when you think of how much money the entire project costs. That's what makes us nervous. These projects are so expensive. Are they ever really going to get funded? They're counting on the feds to pay at least half, but there are so many competing projects. We're very worried about whether these projects will really be built. - Beverly Dolinsky

This is a fishing expedition by the feds. Until anyone proves otherwise, I'm with Brian and supporting him completely. - Arthur Cheliotes

This is a critical government program that is in complete shambles. We are talking about simple, common- sense responsibility to shield American consumers from rising energy prices. Performance standards are the most successful tool we have to ease the burden on consumers and protect our increasingly fragile energy supply system, but the feds are asleep at the switch. - Katherine Kennedy

This has nothing to do with that... If the feds begin to do what they need to do, the relative role of the state agencies would diminish. Nothing I've said means that we wouldn't do all our cases over again. - Eliot Spitzer

They're trying to say that greater federal authority would have made a difference... The reality is that the feds are the ones that screwed up in the first place. It's not about authority. It's about leadership. ... They've got all the authority already. - George Haddow