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Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.


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Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.
GROVER NORQUIST Americans for Tax Reform is a national taxpayer organization dedicated to opposing any and all tax i...
GROVER NORQUIST Outside of Washington, D.C., most Americans aren't concerned with doing things 'big.' Th...
ELAINE CHAO If taxes and government spending are both slashed, then the salutary result will be to lower the par...
MURRAY ROTHBARD For me, I think being a conservative means you are focused on all four key principles: strong defens...
JIM JORDAN In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're ...
FAREED ZAKARIA Tax revenues are going to be lower. Fewer people will have jobs, fewer people will pay income tax, m...
PAUL DONOVAN A long time ago, I watched President Reagan repeat a few simple points about the benefits for everyo...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW That's what we're looking for, hopefully less taxes and less government.
BILL BUNTING Lower taxes will stimulate your own personal economy by leaving more money in your pocket to do what...
FABRIZIO MOREIRA For small businesses, you need less taxes, less federal spending, and you need less regulation that ...
DAVID MALPASS In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. A...
RICK PERRY A conservative government tends to have a lower tax, less spending and small government. Financial m...
FIRAS ASKARI I stand side by side with Ronald Reagan on less taxes and less government.
MARILYN BREWER Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the...
MARK ZANDI We found that privacy is a much less mature area in government, and there is less progress to report...
PAUL WOHLLEBEN More freedom means more jobs... less government and less taxes.
TODD AKIN Experience tells us that we do not need more overspending or higher taxes to grow jobs. We do not ne...
TIM WALBERG Increased spending, growing government debt and overreaching regulations are stifling job creation a...
JOE CRAFT Well, I think lower taxes and less regulation would actually promote growth.
JEB BUSH In the European context tax rates are high and government expenditure is focused on current expendit...
MARIO DRAGHI Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment...
MARK MCKINNON I got elected to run the government more efficiently, lower taxes.
PHIL ROE People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spend...
CARL PALADINO I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe th...
ED ROYCE Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work...
ZACH WAMP A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending pro...
SAM GRAVES As long as we're focused on spending, there are only two ways to do that: One is spend less, and...
GROVER NORQUIST I'm a Conservative who believes in lower taxes. They lead to a more enterprising economy. But I&...
GEORGE OSBORNE What we're experiencing now is the later adopters are either lower income or certainly more frugal o...
DAN ERNST What we're experiencing now is the later adopters are either lower-income or certainly more frugal o...
DAN ERNST I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic ...
SARAH JESSICA PARKER Let's bring in Donald Trump. He wants to lower taxes across the board for individuals and large ...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW We believe that the (federal government) has sole authority to regulate fuel economy in order to avo...
CHARLES TERRITO Certainly, the job of a U.S. senator is to create a climate conducive to creating jobs, which is low...
SHARRON ANGLE I've been a Republican all my life because I embrace the conservative values of hard work, perso...
LIONEL SOSA I am for anyone that will give me lower taxes, stop all this stupid spending. Whoever promises me th...
JOAN RIVERS It shows the moderate voices within the Republican Party are dominating, and that they want experien...
BEN NIGHTHORSE CAMPBELL They're not interested in cutting taxes; everybody knows that, ... When they were in charge, they ne...
TOM DELAY Any change from the lower court opinion will certainly result in fewer waters protected. What that m...
CAROL BROWNER I'm always taken back when we work so hard at the Republican Party of Pasco for less taxes and less ...
BILL BUNTING I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in d...
SARAH JESSICA PARKER For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended fo...
MIKE PENCE The correction of these imbalances and associated inflation pressures will require a slowdown in hou...
ALAN BOLLARD All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a de...
ADAM CAROLLA By pushing grand juries to issue politically motivated indictments of prominent Republicans, Ronnie ...
MALLORY FACTOR If you have fewer jobs created and less of a boost to the economy overall, then that effect naturall...
CATHERINE SWIFT Buying momentum for domestic-demand related stocks still exists on a recovery in consumer spending a...
HIDEYUKI OOKOSHI The challenge for him in the long term is to slash government spending when the economy picks up.
YASUSHI OKADA Voters want conflicting things. They want a lot of government spending, but they don't want high...
BRUCE RAUNER The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spen...
GEORGE OSBORNE Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prio...
DINESH D'SOUZA Of all government expenditures, defense spending is the... most stimulative to the economy.
TRENT FRANKS A national government using New Deal programs and the massive defense spending beginning with World ...
ROBERT DALLEK If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work ...
ADAM DAVIDSON The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes,...
RAND PAUL I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm...
MARK MCKINNON President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less gover...
RALPH HALL After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most eff...
HOWARD COBLE Regulations in an "Idea Economy" are restraints on innovation.
A.E. SAMAAN Stimulus spending, permanent bailouts, government takeovers, and federal mandates have all failed ou...
GEOFF DAVIS Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not ...
BARRY GOLDWATER Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for...
PAUL RYAN The Netherlands has been severely hit by the debt crisis, and the solution is to lower taxes, get go...
MARK RUTTE I believe I was sent to Washington to fight for and defend our traditional values of smaller governm...
PHIL GINGREY The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reduc...
GROVER NORQUIST In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans...
KENNETH BLACKWELL The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of....
ADAM DAVIDSON Higher taxes kill jobs. Regulations kill jobs.
RICK SCOTT You're foursquare in a dilemma if you want to broaden the base and lower tax rates. If you broaden t...
SCOTT HODGE Because tax cuts create an incentive to increase output, employment, and production, they also help ...
ARTHUR LAFFER Our argument is everybody ought to be paying lower rates, and we ought to be focused on growing the ...
STEVE SCALISE In truth, Wall Street is in for a radical makeover. Fewer people, lower margins, lower risk, lower c...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longe...
MARTIN FELDSTEIN The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is les...
RICHARD M. NIXON Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy d...
AMITY SHLAES People are less stressed, and so they can concentrate on work. We have data that show these programs...
KATHY BURKE It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the gr...
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not ...
BARRY GOLDWATER Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not ...
BARRY GOLDWATER Obama's plan for higher taxes and more spending is a blueprint for perpetual poverty. The last t...
STEVE STOCKMAN I'm not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes.
GROVER NORQUIST The system is going to help recover more losses for creditors, ... It's going to mean less weight on...
LAURA FISHER Hispanics who get on government programs are doing only a little better than they were in the old co...
ROGER AILES This is the last of the governor's initiatives to dismantle government and get rid of entitlement sp...
KAREN WOODALL I am a believer in smaller government, limited government, less regulation, less taxes, because I th...
MATT BEVIN We need to cut taxes instead of increasing taxes and put the state government on a diet,
WILLIAM SCRANTON Increased use of public transportation is the single most effective way to reduce America's energy c...
WILLIAM MILLAR The anti-New Deal line is wrong as a matter of economics. F.D.R.'s spending programs did help th...
ADAM COHEN As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to ...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER I want to lower taxes for the middle class.
DONALD TRUMP When government programs aren't working, those on the Left tend to support more funding, while t...
CASS SUNSTEIN No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.
RUSH LIMBAUGH I'm not going to raise taxes on middle-class Americans to pay for the programs I've recommended.
BILL CLINTON Achieving greater competition in this space is a very important policy matter for the U.S. governmen...
JOE NORDGAARD I am gay, I am a gay Republican. But I believe in the principal tenets of this party -- less governm...
CARL SCHMID Allowing taxes to go up on all Americans would have raised taxes by $3,000 for a typical American fa...
PRESIDENT OBAMA Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector h...
JOHN REDWOOD All taxes, except a 'lump-sum tax,' introduce distortions in the economy. But no government ...
ROBERT J. SHILLER The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes tha...
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SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Life is warfare.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) If you wish to be loved; Love!
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)