Tara Westover Quotes

I don't have a birth certificate.

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

What hasn't been talked about a lot is that President Trump signed an order that puts in place a constant deregulatory form within the federal government. And what it says is, for every regulation presented for passage that Cabinet secretary has to identify two that person would eliminate. And that's a big deal.

If someone accuses me of not being born here, I can go -within 10 minutes - to my filing cabinet and I can pick up my real birth certificate and I can go, 'See? Look! Here it is. Here it is.'

Vickie Lynn Hogan is my birth certificate's name.

I think so many of our educators, when they hear about these programs coming from the federal government, they're just thinking, 'Uh, that's another book of paperwork that I'm going to have to do,' and teachers are so weighed down with that.

I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.

There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing.

The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago.

The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.

I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it is.'

There was some indecision as to when I was born. My sister said it was 1916. I'd lost my birth certificate.

Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.

History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.

Laws are getting passed in states like Alabama that basically would punish American citizens who are 'harboring' people. Since the federal government hasn't been able to muster or to get comprehensive immigration reform passed, states are taking it upon themselves to police and enforce laws.

Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.

The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.

Where the federal government and the taxpayer has had funds misused, we need to use the full extent of the law to get those funds back for the taxpayer.

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.

I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.

Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.

Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security.

No one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.