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If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system.


Bob Taft

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ERINN HAYES I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON If you increase taxes now on - at any level, it's going to make it harder to create jobs And we&...
LINDSEY GRAHAM You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
CHARLES KETTERING I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Natural gas is the one fuel that we have that's affordable, it's scaleable, it can replace c...
AUBREY MCCLENDON If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the ...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tom...
VANILLA ICE Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital...
GROVER NORQUIST Let's make sure we're doing what we can in our own backyard to gain our energy independence ...
CORY GARDNER I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH It doesn't have anything to do with yesterday or tomorrow, it's all right now.
BILLY HIGGINS It's time to permanently lower America's tax gate so that the $2 trillion in stranded U.S. p...
KEVIN BRADY If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
CRAIG GROESCHEL About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the ...
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ERNEST ISTOOK The Golden State has lost its luster. We've got to change our tax system and how we fund governm...
ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
KHALIL GIBRAN Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
BOB DYLAN What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.
BEN HECHT What's wrong with the auto industry isn't that it failed to create jobs. What's wrong is...
AMITY SHLAES America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be...
P. J. O'ROURKE Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yest...
BERNARD MARCUS Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.
JON BON JOVI Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.
CHANDRA WILSON Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's ca...
BIL KEANE We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have ...
TIM SCOTT Let's create a legal system that can work.
SAM BROWNBACK Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care syst...
TOM HARKIN You can't force chemistry. It's either there or it's not. You can't create it.
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RICK RIORDAN The government can't create jobs; they'll destroy jobs trying to do it. The government doesn...
PETER SCHIFF People often talk about Hispanics. You know, I have more Hispanics come up to me telling me, 'Li...
ERIC TRUMP We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
HAROLD S. GENEEN I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
PADDY ASHDOWN Everything in life can be tiring and tiresome if we don't have the ability to look at it as if i...
ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT I actually think in some ways that it might be more challenging to be bipolar because it's so me...
CLAIRE DANES Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourse...
RACHEL JOYCE Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
BABE RUTH I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own cul...
DAVID SYLVIAN It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don&...
JOEL MADDEN It's not coincidence that the U.S. is in last place in the world in terms of corporate tax rate....
DAVID MALPASS The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country ...
DONALD TRUMP It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you ca...
LENA DUNHAM It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We...
SALLY YATES Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN It's not enough to be a woman. You have to care about women's issues. And women's issues...
JONI ERNST I don't think of myself as a brand. Branding to me feels like a position or identity that's ...
DAVID ROCKWELL Our businesses can't create jobs when they're losing revenue, and the unemployed can't a...
CHELLIE PINGREE I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't c...
HAYAO MIYAZAKI The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax eva...
GEORGE PAPANDREOU We're adults. We're the ones who should teach the kids what's good to eat. I don't t...
TOM COLICCHIO No country's policies are eternal; they do vary. People are growing old, and a new generation is...
MARTTI AHTISAARI The Remain campaign... I've never seen a more miserable offering. All they are saying is stay in...
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ANDY TAYLOR It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this i...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE I timed my previous wife's pregnancy to the moment to have my son born on Bob Dylan's 50th b...
CHARLIE TROTTER The reason we're getting bombed is 'cause we were on one side, and we're gonna remain on...
JIMMIE WALKER There's nothing women can't do. There's absolutely nothing we can't do. We're fa...
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MATISYAHU There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!
NAT KING COLE If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.
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"Funny name for an aircraft...
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JAMES P. HOFFA If I was British, I would vote resolutely 'remain' because it's in the U.K.'s intere...
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STEVE EARLE My respect for TSA agents went up a notch. We look at 'em like, 'You can't bother me, I&...
LIL REL HOWERY Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA If Dana White can offer a contract that's not one-sided, and it's not cumbersome to the poin...
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CAROLYN GOLD HEILBRUN If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up...
BOB RILEY Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday'...
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EZRA TAFT BENSON You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.
EZRA TAFT BENSON The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. Al...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agre...
EZRA TAFT BENSON True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of thei...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The tenth plank in Karl Marx's Manifesto for destroying our kind of civilization advocated the estab...
EZRA TAFT BENSON No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth ...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Now, brethren, do not expect perfection in your choice of a mate. Do not be so particular that you o...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Pride adversely affects all our relationships—our relationship with God and His servants, between ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride—it is always considered a sin. Therefo...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prom...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow, he cannot make business g...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific gr...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT [George] Washington intended this to be a Federal city, and it is a Federal city, and it tingles dow...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT There is only one thing I want to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I thin...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blo...
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