Coats Quote by Calvin Coolidge

Expose widespread waste and duplication in federal spending.

— Tom Coburn

It is the policy of the federal government to use all resources at its disposal to make our financial system stronger.

— Henry Paulson

If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as…

— Alexander Hamilton

So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part…

— Thomas Jefferson

If the exercise of power of internal taxation by the Union should be discovered on experiment to be really inconvenient, the federal government may…

— Alexander Hamilton

Where the federal government and the taxpayer has had funds misused, we need to use the full extent of the law to get those…

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Who then would not like to see these benefits flow upon the world from the law, as from an inexhaustible source?... But is it…

— Frederic Bastiat

To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of…

— Martin Van Buren

Defense is not like other discretionary spending.

— Robert M. Gates

The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.

— Toyotomi Hideyoshi

The IRS takes your money. Congress uses our money to arm our enemies. The IRS takes more of your money. Congress uses that money…

— Justin Amash

We may be assured by past experience, that such a practice [as some states charging high taxes on goods from other states] would be…

— James Madison