Obsessions turn people off.

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

The statists want to control the economy.

Taxes are the killing fields of Democrats.

Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase.

I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways.

Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy.

We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat.

Wars are expensive and dangerous. They're not political winners.

Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again.

People learn their politics at a young age and tend to stick with it.

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

The taxpayer group in every state is always - always referred to as nuts.

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy.

Compromise is moving in the right directlon more slowly than one might like.

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

We don't need someone who can think. We need someone with enough digits to hold a pen.

Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.

No Republican could expect to win the GOP nod after betraying his party's rank and file.

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party.

The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government.

Could I ask if there’s anything in between Step One and Step Two? ‘Oh ye of little faith.’

When I became 21, I decided that nobody learned anything about politics after the age of 21.

There are a number of people who won't be president in 2009, and Mark Warner is one of them.

I was a math guy as a kid. I was really good at math. I wasn't particularly interested in it.

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

When I was younger, I thought of myself as a Nixon Republican because he was the anti-Communist.

My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit.

Which idiot put the GOP convention the same time as 'Burning Man' in Nevada? Is there time to change this?

A 20-pound weight on the back of a small horse is more damaging than a 20-pound weight on a very big horse.

Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country.

The Republican Party and the conservative free market movement have been presidentially focused for too long.

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

We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals, and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government.

Everyone would have bigger and safer cars if they didn't have those CAFE standards: corporate average fuel economy.

My wife and I have what's known as mixed marriage. I am a Methodist, she is a Muslim. So we're keeping it in the M's.

What Mae West said about sex is true about taxes. All tax cuts are good tax cuts; even bad tax cuts are good tax cuts.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what we were up to.

People who say that there's a vote within the Republican Party that moves against immigrants is just factually not accurate.

We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.

Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith.

We laugh at liberals who declare that their favorite spending programs should be exempt because the spending is for a noble cause.

My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I can write murder mysteries.

The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.

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