Air Quote by Gordon Bethune Download Open image “We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers.” — Gordon Bethune ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Air Alcohol Cigarette Passengers Sin Taxes Traveller
How would we feel if you could pay extra to smoke on airplanes? When we decide something is a bad idea in general for… — Peter Gleick Copy Share Image
Sometimes 'sin' taxes are useful not because of their perceived health benefits but because they are effectively a form of voluntary taxation which tends… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do like, like… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Here's what the rest of the world does that we don't do. They take the tax off of their exports and place a tax… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
I suggested that countries with tighter finances think about such a [fuel] tax. We don't have the time at the moment for months of… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
I just don't think it's good public policy to tax fuel. It's kind of silly. It stops people from traveling and actually costs the… — David Neeleman Copy Share Image
But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration. — Steve King Copy Share Image
We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes and charges. The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels - more, and… — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
'Green' cannot be allowed to become an excuse for stealth taxes. And nor should 'green taxes' be about punishment. Instead, they should represent a… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share. — George Osborne Copy Share Image
Are we really living in a time where we still need to remind people not to smoke on airplanes? Like...For real? — JoJo Copy Share Image
It's difficult to have everybody like everything you do. I don't know anybody that's perfect and doesn't have a zit somewhere. — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
Grounding airplanes to cover your butt would never have let Orville or Wilbur change the world. We would still be spending weeks to cross… — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline. — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
I don't think JetBlue has a better chance of being profitable than 100 other predecessors with new airplanes, new employees, low fares, all touchy-feely… — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
But I like to think that a lot of managers and executives trying to solve problems miss the forest for the trees by forgetting… — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline so cheap, nobody will… — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
In airplanes you have a choice between chocolate and vanilla. One year could be vanilla or it could be chocolate. I don't attach any… — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie to your employees. — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
I just want to be able to get on an airplane and enjoy myself in Disneyland, not sit there worrying about all these assassins. — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
Every pilot thinks they're the best pilot in the world. I think I'm the best pilot. — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
I will be a tireless advocate for our District's defense priorities including Sheppard Air Force Base, Pantex, Bell Helicopter, universities conducting important research, and… — Ronny Jackson Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
If U.S. air, naval, missile, and ground forces were not in and around Korea, and if we were not treaty-bound to fight alongside South… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
There was a little nook on Air Force Two that contained the vice presidential seal, and I would sort of wedge myself in there… — Jill Biden Copy Share Image
Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
[A]s you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air.… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
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