Quotes About Change

My mother taught me when you go someplace, you leave it better than you found it.

Whether you want to lose 20 pounds or 200, what the contestants on 'The Biggest Loser' have learned - and taught me - holds true: You've got to make a break. You've got to divorce yourself from the past and find a different way of living. And you can never go back.

I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.

Making assumptions taught me a lot as a producer, because it's something I never do now.

The renaissance movement and social reformers have taught us that superstitious beliefs and customs should be challenged and opposed.

I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about.

At school I hated swimming and felt bigger and more self-conscious than all the other girls - and I would go to summer sports camps to desperately try to change my shape so that it couldn't be one of the taunts aimed at me by bullies.

And my response is 70,000 people in the state of Maine that paid income tax in 2011 will not be paying income tax in 2012.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

You have got to clear up that corporation tax in the modern way has had its day as a major source of revenue, and we have got to find a new system.

I think a flat tax has merit. Anything would be better than the current tax code.

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

You have educate the masses to exactly what their tax dollars are going to pay for. I think once people educate themselves and open up their minds to understand that on that really basic level, then you'll have some type of change in the way that Americans associate themselves and participate in their own political process.

We should try to ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to find a great life. It's a quest that will require political will and ingenious policies. President Obama's proposed expansion of the earned-income tax credit goes in this direction, but we need more.

It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.

To focus capital and entrepreneurship into empowering innovation, we should change is the capital gains tax rate. We would be better served by a regressive tax rate, that would become progressively smaller the longer the investment is held.

If we could get the corporate tax rate down to, let's say, a maximum of 25 percent, it would be a sea change for this country. It would be great.

What we need is fundamental tax reform.

Tax reform is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.

Actually, I'm a strong supporter of comprehensive tax reform.

I firmly believe Americans are far better off under tax reform than they ever were sticking with this old, messed up, outdated tax code.

To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task.

Tax reform exists, sort of, as an outline - miles away from being actual passed legislation.

Nothing says 'economic growth' like fundamental tax reform.