Jeff Sessions Quotes

We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

You've got to have tax reform to get faster economic growth. Faster economic growth is necessary for us to get our debt under control.

I think [Donald Trump] s got the votes for [tax reform]. I think he's definitely has the Republican votes for it, in House and Senate, and I think he probably has maybe 20 percent of the Democratic vote for it. So he could get it done with a bipartisan majority.

Something got screwed up in terms of your priorities if you think it's more important to get rid of the dividend tax than it is to take care of 11 million kids.

I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.

You remember had this gigantic clock in the arena showing the size of the national debt. And Paul told America, if you elect Republicans, we can fix that. But, if Paul Ryan was being honest, he would've pointed to the debt clock and said, we built that.

We vetoed five income tax increases during my time as governor. We cut business taxes $2.3 billion, and we cut regulation by one-third of what my predecessor put in place.

I'm not going to raise taxes; I'm not going to have a wage increase for public employees.

I will veto any tax increase.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time.

Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.

What I want to do is make certain that no one's taxes go up. Let's look at cleaning up the tax code.

The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage.

Anything to do with any new form of tax, like consumption tax in Japan, carbon tax in Australia, these are big issues that cannot be easily decided.

When you talk about a 'broad-based business tax,' that's a pretty broad term. I don't know what that means. But it's not something I would be supportive of.

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.

We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax.

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

There's a lot of evidence you can sell people on tax increases if they think its an investment.

President Obama always gives lip service to lowering the corporate tax rate, but he never specifies a particular rate or an overall plan.

Actually, I'm a strong supporter of comprehensive tax reform.

We have to reduce the tax burden, whether it's income tax for corporations or private individuals, and we should put a freeze on property taxes.