Ander Crenshaw Quotes

When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. - they'll find something.

We're not looking for love as tax collectors. We recognize that taxpayers may not be altogether pleased with the bottom line of what we do. But, if they can say to themselves, "I was treated courteously, I was treated promptly and I was treated professionally," then that is part of a customer service that we think is ... appropriate.

The taxpayer group in every state is always - always referred to as nuts.

Does the Internal Revenue Service work for you or do you work for them?

I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful - a handful of groups that fight for less spending.

I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.

A lot of people are happy to give money to charities but are wary of giving through taxes because they feel it doesn't produce any value.

I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.

'Tax Collector' was optioned for a series with F/X, but it never happened. I guess they ran into a problem trying to figure out why someone would tune in to watch a show about a guy who works for the IRS.

The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime!

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

No taxation without respiration.

Americans for Tax Reform is a national taxpayer organization dedicated to opposing any and all tax increases. We work at the national, state and local level for lower taxes, less government spending and limited government.

The person to protect is the American taxpayer. We deserve to be protected, not Lockheed.

We as taxpayers don't have a line item veto.

It will be a sad day for the revenues if the good will of the people toward their taxing system is frittered away in efforts to accomplish by taxation moral reforms that cannot be accomplished by direct legislation.

I think Americans raise eyebrows when you tell them that IRS agents are training with a type of weapon that has stand-off capability. It's not like they're carrying a sidearm, and they knock on someone's door and say, 'You're evading your taxes.'

European pantywaists might keep voting for high-spending governments, but the U.S. was founded on a popular revolt against taxation.

It is my responsibility to ensure the Internal Revenue Service respects the Constitutional rights of all Americans while enforcing the nation's laws.

On the IRS website, they claim to be one of the world's most efficient tax administrators. The IRS officials might know how to collect taxes, but surely know how to misspend the funds.

And that does concern me, because we're not getting enough back for our taxes that we're paying. I think we really have to look at the whole sort of area.

Obama's IRS is not the IRS I've ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.

Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already.

We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.