We were promised that if we gave huge tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans, the benefits would trickle down, deficits would disappear and the economy would flourish.


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I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.
TOM WILSON
Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.
TOM WILSON
A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!
TOM WILSON
Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
TOM WOLFE
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
TOM STOPPARD
Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.
TOM WOLFE
Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of disease...
TOM ALLEN
Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards,...
TOM HANKS
Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. B...
TOM STOPPARD
Everybody who is anyone wanted to meet a real life gangster, and here's Joey Gallo hitting the s...
TOM FOLSOM
The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
TOM LANDRY
From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can lite...
TOM STOPPARD
No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned w...
TOM WATSON
Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what i...
TOM WATSON
Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick invo...
TOM PETTY
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term w...
TOM STOPPARD
Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
TOM LEHRER
I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
TOM HANKS
Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.
TOM WAITS
A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
TOM STOPPARD
I have spoken to Donald Trump about this. He understands the dramatic budget cuts our military has f...
TOM COTTON
When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I...
TOM STOPPARD
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
TOM STOPPARD
The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a n...
TOM STOPPARD
The dominant male is history. Could you see a male Lady Gaga? The closest we've got is Justin Bi...
TOM ODELL
After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who fee...
TOM BRADY
There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance E...
TOM ROBBINS
I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I...
TOM FORD
When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would g...
TOM STOPPARD