Isn't it odd I've made some friends in the Republican Party, but that's in spite of the fact that I cannot agree… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty,… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
When you can identify a specific tax that people don't like, and this is one that was designed for the Rockefellers, for… — Paul Gigot Copy Share Image
A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; while we… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The worst loophole is what Donald Trump has talked about: the tax deductibility of interest. If you let real estate owners or… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
For many people, the mortgages they took out before 2008 are so high that they would be better off walking away from… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I'm a Conservative, but I talk for the ordinary working classes. I get on with the boys at the pub, but I… — Vinnie Jones Copy Share Image
Most people think of the economy as producing goods and services and paying labor to buy what it produces. But a growing… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Taxes will eventually become a voluntary process, with the possible exception of real estate - the one physical thing that does not… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Feudalism is an economic system where a few people own all the land and the others have no option but to be… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
If you take sales presentations and brokers of commercial real estate and businesses... I'm 70 years old, I've never seen one I… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to… — Eustace Budgell Copy Share Image
This is true in other fields, too, that a legal aid lawyer gets a whole lot less money than a Hollywood lawyer… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
There is a word in Old English which belongs wholly to that civilization - "dustsceawung," meaning contemplation of dust. It is a… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
The event concept was sparked from a shared observation amongst these leading lifestyle brands that the economic rebound has spurred greater liquidity… — Andrea Savage Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church must be the biggest corporation in the United States. We have a branch office in every neighborhood. Our assets… — Avro Manhattan Copy Share Image
Interest rates are going to go up because employment is going to go up. If employment goes up, then our apartments get… — Sam Zell Copy Share Image
I have been tested in many ways, personally, I have beaten breast cancer, I buried a child to addiction. Professionally, you cannot… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
You may be surprised to learn that, in our law, although the fetus is currently without the right to life, it does… — Janet E. Smith Copy Share Image
[ Massachusetts constitution] was [John Adams] attempt to justify that structure by the traditional notion of social estates - that the executive… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Churches are tax exempt because they are supposed to provide a public good. To prove that good to the IRS, churches arent… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
Just before I began doing this show [The Last Word ], a dear friend of mine, Karen Russell, asked me what I… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Over two thousand years ago, Aristotle taught us that money should be durable, divisible, consistent, convenient, and value in itself. It should… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As a general proposition, campaigns do not linger on the vice presidential nominee. When they have, it's always meant very bad news… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
Suggestion of the Communist Manifesto was 'abolition of all right of inheritance.' Looking backward upon the past history of estate taxes, we… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
The man who barely abstains from violating either the person, or the estate, or the reputation of his neighbours, has surely very… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own” “Stupidity has a certain charm… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Sorry, Bex," Jason said "You don't have the recognizable facial characteristics - such as a huge chin, or a large amount of… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the… — Donald Fagen Copy Share Image
There used to be this guy called Vinny who worked on the floor of the stock exchange, said one big investor who… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution of the United States in… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
If any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou hast to spare; if he press… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Suppose you were a real estate investor with a 1/3 interest in the best apartment complex in town, the best mall, and… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency.. Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Some people--Samad for example--will tell you not to trust people who overuse the phrase "at the end of the day"--football managers, estate… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image