Quotes About Government

Government should concentrate on building up infrastructure and skill development. Simplification of taxation is another important area.

It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.

Less regulation plus less taxation plus less litigation always equals more innovation and job creation.

We need to stop illegal immigration. We need to put people back to work. We need to cut taxes.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.

Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, we're being taxed to death.

I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country.

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

It's not Apple's fault that they're seeking to avoid paying taxes. They're not lying, cheating or stealing. They're following the rules that were created by governments. If the government doesn't like the rules, they can change them.

A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production.

I'll happily pay more taxes if we all have equal human rights.

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.

I'm a conservative who likes small government and lower taxes.

Well, I think lower taxes and less regulation would actually promote growth.

If the Liberals and NDP were to take office they would take the benefits away and raise taxes.

I think for some, the very wealthiest among us, for corporations, taxes are too low.

We have always looked at taxes as a cost, just as any other cost that comes with doing business.

The citizens of Puerto Rico pay taxes with no representation every day, because Puerto Rico is not a state. And the rules only became more confusing the more I looked into them during my time there.

I'm not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes.

Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government.

There was no measure that required greater caution or more severe scrutiny than one to impose taxes or raise a loan, be the form what it may. I hold that government has no right to do either, except when the public service makes it imperiously necessary, and then only to the extent that it requires.