Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Trillin

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Dick Spring

We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.

Albert Camus

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Thomas Jefferson

Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

Thomas Jefferson

Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.

Tom Feeney

No taxation without respiration.

Mark Levin

Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.

Merton Miller

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

Herbert Hoover

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

Alan Greenspan

Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.

Jamie Dimon

I've been regulated my whole life. We have progressive taxes. It's not a free-market free-for-all. I completely understand that society has a perfectly legitimate right to put in structures and regulations and rules that make it fairer, better, cleaner.

Al Gore

I'm a big fan of Bitcoin ... Regulation of money supply needs to be depoliticized.

Bob Corker

I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate.

Antonin Scalia

You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.

Dick Pound

We can now (impose punishment) under the world anti-doping code. I'm not sure what the UCI regulation at the time may have been.

Frank Penela

There's no regulation on where they put the dealerships.

Alexander Cockburn

Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.

Jonathan Frenkel

Legislation or regulation may not be a solution in all cases, but it may be warranted in appropriate circumstances.

Matthias Platzeck

We want the negotiations on forming a new government to proceed quickly.

Michel Onfray

We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can lump together executioner and victim, good and evil.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We are protesting a new form of dictatorship and authoritarianism.

Alex Ferguson

We're in great form at the moment and looking forward to every match.

Method Man

I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.

Nicolas Roeg

I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract.

Heikki Kovalainen

I enjoy playing golf, but no, I don't think golf helps driving. It does take my mind away from driving, though; every time I play golf, I don't think about Formula 1.

Kurt Vonnegut

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

Ayad Allawi

Whenever the results of the investigation come to the surface, then the time will be suitable to talk about forming the new government.