"It's traditionally not federal policy to fund state and local salaries. It's done sometimes on a temporary basis or a grant basis. But it's not often done. And the reason is clear, because the federal government can't continue in perpetuity these programs."

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Source : "Starting Point With Soledad O'Brien", www.cnn.com. June 14, 2012.

Jim Talent

#Government Quotes #Salary Quotes #Done Quotes

“There is no advance without strife.”

Source : Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer (2016). “After Worlds Collide”, p.185, Macmillan
“I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.”
“You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.”
“He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.”
“First, this law - the National Defense Education Act - ended years and years of debate about one controversial question: 'Shall the Federal Government, with all its massive resources, get directly involved in aiding American education?' The answer this law gave was a loud 'Yes!' - and thus we paved the way for a new era of support for education in America. This law, in fact, helped make possible more than 50 new education laws passed in my administration.”
“Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself.”

Source : A.J. Hartley, David Hewson (2014). “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Novel”, p.52
“But shall gravity be therefore called an occult cause, and thrown out of philosophy, because the cause of gravity is occult and not yet discovered? Those who affirm this, should be careful not to fall into an absurdity that may overturn the foundations of all philosophy. For causes usually proceed in a continued chain from those that are more compounded to those that are more simple; when we are arrived at the most simple cause we can go no farther ... These most simple causes will you then call occult and reject them? Then you must reject those that immediately depend on them.”
“Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.”

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