Quotes About Government

I believe we now have a glorious opportunity: we can pass our laws and set our taxes entirely according to the needs of the U.K. economy.

France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden... something of which I am not proud.

As far as I'm concerned, the people who aren't paying taxes don't get to run around claiming that they built everything, that the built the roads and that they built the bridges and so forth.

There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder.

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.

After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.

We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.

We owe the government taxes. We owe our creditors interest. What do these powers owe us?

We have proven that conservative principles work: less taxes, less government, and more freedom.

You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.

We all have to pay our bills. We all have to pay our taxes. Straight up.

Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spending, cut taxes, that will focus on private-sector job creation.

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

Everybody should pay taxes.

Nothing could be more regressive than carbon taxes.

G.E. doesn't pay any taxes, and we are asking college kids to take on even more debt to get an education and asking seniors to get by on less. These aren't just economic questions. These are moral questions.

Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.

I love talking about taxes.

Our families are overburdened with taxes.

Government needs to get out of the way, focus more on affordability, manage taxes properly so we get the services we expect.

It's exciting to sing in the place where you pay your taxes.

Jesus said that we should render to the state what properly belongs to the state, and though he had taxes in mind, we might reasonably infer that giving the state the job of punishing wrongdoers is one way of giving the state its due.

I just simply can't support having my constituents pay more taxes and not receive more benefits for their tax payments.