Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need. — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy. — W. C. Sellar Copy Share Image
By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It's a game. We tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington: Today it is 1 in 4. — John Ensign Copy Share Image
We have, during his regime, during President Obama's regime, we've doubled our national debt. We're up to $20 trillion. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
We don't want to put up the money. We owe almost $20 trillion. Doubled since [Barack] Obama took office, our national debt.But… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
You remember had this gigantic clock in the arena showing the size of the national debt. And Paul told America, if you… — Chris Van Hollen Copy Share Image
The blame for [the national debt] lies with the Congress and the President, with Democrats and Republicans alike, most all of whom… — Warren Rudman Copy Share Image
We may casually talk of all sorts of new programs and 'stimulus,' but the vast trillion-dollar collective national debt and rising annual… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
The burden of the national debt consists not in its being so many millions, or so many hundred millions, but in the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The amount of money coming into Washington is not a factor when the Democrats start spending it. Witness Obama. National debt doubled… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
I will bring our energy companies back. They'll be able to compete. They'll make money. They'll pay off our national debt. They'll… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
That is to say, under the old way any time we wish to add to the national wealth we are compelled to… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I've criticized Republicans for their lack of fiscal discipline when they controlled Congress before 2007. However, that is no excuse to just… — Erik Paulsen Copy Share Image
We have to remember, lefts are the people who created unsustainable national debt, unsustainable health insurance, health care, unsustainable college tuition and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is the people who constitute the basis of Government credit. Why then cannot the people have benefit of their own gilt-edge… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“The world became more aware that America-despite being the hope of many who have the personal drive and ambition to become part… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It took the national debt two hundred years to reach $1 trillion. Supply Side Economics quadrupled the national debt to over $4… — Ed Schultz Copy Share Image
His presidency ended more than a decade ago, but politicians, Democrat and Republican, still talk about Ronald Reagan. Al Gore has an… — Bruce Morton Copy Share Image
I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I think if we give Glenn Beck the numbers, he can solve this [the national debt]. — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose. — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
“He could melt glaciers with that smile. End wars. Resolve the national debt crisis.” — Kristen Proby Copy Share Image
Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we can't just keep doubling our national debt every eight years. We have got to get that under control and not… — Ron Estes Copy Share Image
When you get the economy growing, that's when you can deal with the national debt. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
“Is a wind farm a field full of talking politicians? If so, I wonder what they grow? Probably the national debt.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
We ought to pay down the national debt, ... The American people are tired of people who make promises about cutting taxes… — John McCain Copy Share Image
It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The Missourians I hear from just don't buy the idea that the only way to tackle the national debt is to drastically… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
I think that when we look out with our underfunded liabilities and our national debt over $14 trillion, I think if we… — Ben Quayle Copy Share Image
Our growing national debt is a threat to our national defense and to our domestic priorities, including research and development, education, health… — Seth Moulton Copy Share Image
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Could thorough chewing lower the national debt? If saliva is full of bacteria, why do animals lick their wounds? Why don’t suicide… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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