Quotes for All
Phil Gramm had a stump speech about how his mother’s devotion kept him from being an academic failure in life. She got him into a special school that turned him around – under a government program for the children of deceased veterans. He was repeatedly asked at press conferences why he would then turn around … Read more
Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America’s students to study more science and math parents must push and help their children to meet this goal. Ernest Istook
Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the … Read more
What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver. Edward James Olmos
There’s only one kind of tax that would please everybody – one that nobody but the other guy has to pay. Earl Wilson
Prediction is a very difficult business, particularly about the future Fred Singer
By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between loftiness and accessibility. Stir in the fact that the inborn talent and intelligence needed to achieve fame are immune to distributive tinkering by government programs and you have a definition of fame certain … Read more
No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon. Dave Ramsey
Your federal government needs your money so that it can perform vital services for you that you would not think up yourself in a million years. Dave Barry
In the nature of things, those who have no property and see their neighbors possess much more than they think them to need, cannot be favorable to laws made for the protection of property. When this class becomes numerous, it becomes clamorous. It looks on property as its prey and plunder, and is naturally ready, … Read more