David Stockman Quotes

By the way, my tax cut is the biggest since Ronald Reagan. I'm very proud of it.

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

As a Republican, I am all for competition.

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

George W. Bush, the man, is a person of profound faith and deep compassion for those who suffer. But President George W. Bush is a politician and is ultimately no different from any other politician, content to use religion for electoral gain more than for good works.

I often criticized what President Bush did, but President Obama is Bush's spending on steroids.

I'm going to cut taxes big league, and you're going to raise taxes big league, end of story.

We will also never bring up the permanent tax cut the president is advocating.

This is such music to my ears. James Carville advocating a tax cut to stimulate the economy.

To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his tax cuts, make all of them permanent.

Well, my plan, actually Larry Kudlow, who's a fantastic guy, I think likes my plan the most. I'm cutting taxes by about the most.

I wish they weren't called the 'Bush tax cuts.' If they're called some other body's tax cuts, they're probably less likely to be raised.

Ohioans know who cut their taxes. Nobody else on the ballot did. Ohioans know who is responsible for job growth, and nobody else on the ballot was.

I don't hear anything from Trump about tax increases. I hear tax cuts from him. I hear tax reform from him.

You [Republicans] are not going to cut taxes. You're going to raise taxes on the middle class.

We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists, and in so far as it ever did exist, it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy, followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step.

People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

We have souls. Sure we do. Otherwise we'd do bad things all the time. You know, like politicians.

Politicians are leeches, mostly.

You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.

I would have been a Republican, if Karl Rove had returned my phone calls.

Rick Perry is the perfect candidate for those who thought George W. Bush was just too dang cerebral. And Adios, Mofo is the perfect guide to his record, his rhetoric and his remarkable hair. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll vote.

And then you've got Lieberman, who is for the war. And thinks the tax cuts could really help. He's basically for people who want to vote for Bush but don't think Bush is Jewish enough.

The most laughable White House criticism is that tax cuts are a 'free lunch.' The American people's work created that money. Only in Washington could there be a belief that letting people keep more of what they create is a giveaway.

Michele Bachmann... I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to say it.... Tutti-frutti. I know I'm going to get in trouble!