Quotes About Government

I'm a Conservative. I don't believe there should be too many rules. There should be lower taxes.

We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes.

It's time to acknowledge that more government and higher taxes is not the answer to our problem.

There are always ways to make government better, always ways to make sure that the taxes of people are better spent.

President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

We have to have an adequate number of taxes and an adequate amount of taxes.

The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

I want paying taxes to feel like the accomplishment of a civic duty.

Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words 'abortion' or 'tax hikes' pass their lips.

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?

Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.

Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.

I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A Fair Tax would replace all federal taxes on personal and corporate income with a single national tax on retail sales, while a Flat Tax would apply the same tax rate to all income with few if any deductions or exemptions.

I've made a promise that taxes would be my last resort on issues.

I think most people... would be glad to pay the same taxes they paid when Bill Clinton was president, if only they could have the same economy they had when Bill Clinton was president.

We can push Montana forward and we can do it with out raising taxes.

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community.

The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.

And that does concern me, because we're not getting enough back for our taxes that we're paying. I think we really have to look at the whole sort of area.

On Capitol Hill, House Republicans have been doing our part. We've been hard at work developing policies that will help empower all Americans. We're beginning to see results. We reduced taxes for everyone.

On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice.

You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'