Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Mitt Romney Quote: 'Democrats want to use the slowdown ...'

Related Quotes

Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
Nancy Pelosi
Tags: Out Believe Down
Obama's plan for higher taxes and more spending is a blueprint for perpetual poverty. The last thing America needs is more of the Democrats' class warfare that has left our economy a barren landscape.
Steve Stockman
Tags: More Our Thing
People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right.
Marcy Kaptur
In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.
Geoff Mulgan
surf water sea nature ocean blue
We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.


Tom Daschle
This year, we are going to take our government out of the hands of corporate special interests and put it back into the hands of Ohio families - where it belongs.
Sherrod Brown
The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.
Al Gore
Tags: Who Get Most
I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.
Barack Obama
Tags: History Had Want
We don't need more of the same, typical politicians fighting for themselves and for special interests. We need someone to believe in our small-business owners again and someone to champion those folks who play by the rules.
Tim Walz
Tags: Who More Our
We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.
Carl Paladino
clouds sky heaven weather nature
More freedom means more jobs... less government and less taxes.


Todd Akin
mirror lake gosausee schladming
Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.


Evelyn Waugh
Tags: Alone Other Use
Americans for Tax Reform is a national taxpayer organization dedicated to opposing any and all tax increases. We work at the national, state and local level for lower taxes, less government spending and limited government.
Grover Norquist
I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.
Mitt Romney
In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.
John Boyd Orr
As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less.
Stephen Breyer
clouds dramatic cumulus sky
Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.


William S. Burroughs
Tags: Our Other Any
There are always ways to make government better, always ways to make sure that the taxes of people are better spent.
George Osborne
wave water surf ocean sea spray
Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.


Herbert Kaufman