Quotes about Government

Most economies have a fair amount of tax evasion, depending on how their data systems are.

The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.

To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

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

If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.

Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.

Most of us are aware of the sacrificial slaughter of Bear Sterns. Some people call it a bailout, but I call it a handout - a government handout to some of the richest people on Earth, paid for by American taxpayers.

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves — in their separate, and individual capacities.