Income Quotes · Page 30

Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels…

— Harry Browne

China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.

— Zhou Enlai

He never once tells me what Tiffany thinks or what is going on in her heart: the awful feelings, the conflicting impulses,…

— Matthew Quick

I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort…

— Thomas Jefferson

Your income is determined by how many people you serve and how well you serve them.

— Bob Burg

[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest…

— Murray Rothbard

Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married…

— Diane Watson

To make a proper moral appraisal of the prevalence of severe poverty today, we should focus not on comparisons with times past,…

— Thomas Pogge

A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a…

— Greg Walden

The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking…

— Thomas Sowell

It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in…

— Samuel Johnson

I get income, but I don't have a big swath of money to invest in things.

— Agnes Gund

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the…

— George Orwell

I make a lot of pots in a year's time and some of them are good and some of them are mediocre…

— Warren MacKenzie

I agree with people who say we want more income equality; we want more consumer protection; and we want sounder banks. I…

— Jamie Dimon

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s.

— Thomas Piketty

My mission is to raise incomes for hard working middle class families. If you work hard and do your part you should…

— Bernie Sanders

I did 15 shows a week when I lived in New York. I did five shows on a Friday and seven shows…

— Ray Romano

To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates…

— Steven Rattner

The real source of market promise is not the wealthy few in the developing world, or even the3 emerging middle-income consumers. It…

— C. K. Prahalad

I lived in lower-income neighborhoods in the inner city. Across the street were dark parts of the world. I've experienced the gamut,…

— Kenna

In short, the early receivers of the new money in this market chain of events gain at the expense of those who…

— Murray Rothbard

For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.

— Barney Frank