#government

For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from. ↗

— Mary Landrieu

#billion #came #coast #except #federal

The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal government is responsible for repairing the damage that has been done, which has not been completed yet. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#building #completed #damage #done #engineering

Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm. ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

#blind #dangerous #democratic #development #effect

It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#country #duty #expending #finance #government

I'm saying the federal government is taking away the freedom of Americans to make choices. ↗

— Paul LePage

#choices #federal #federal government #freedom #government

The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#funding #gallery #government #happen #may

If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman. ↗

— G. Gordon Liddy

#congressman #entertainer #go #government #host

I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established. ↗

— John A. Logan

#die #entered #established #expect #fact

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it. ↗

— Huey Long

#get #going #good #good government #government

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#destroying #environment #fond #governments #including