Roy Thomson Quotes

I've always viewed Mitt Romney as a very conservative person.

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

You know, I'm a free market politician and I think I'm the only one who worked for think-tanks like the Montreal Economic Institute.

People should have an escape valve for their money, their assets. If you have substantial financial assets, the government is going to confiscate the purchasing power of those assets and spend it.

You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.

President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

But only 'rich' people by definition have the 'extra' money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that 'extra' money away - and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times?

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

People have had certain assumptions in the past about Conservative governments, partly because of some of the things that happened in the 1980s, and partly because of the tone of some of the debate in the 1980s that appeared to say public spending on the arts was something you might want to progressively reduce.

A budget matters to people who worry about protecting and saving critical programs like Medicare and Social Security. A budget matters to younger workers who fear that more and more money will be taken from their paychecks to fund another generation's spending spree.

Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.

Obama's claim is that he wants to give. The GOP is saying it wants to take.

If we have an economic crisis in the Western world it's because the government makes up 50 percent or more of the economy. This is a cancer that is taking away people's freedom.

In these difficult times, when tough decisions are required, the differences between Labour and the Tories are becoming much clearer. One party believes in intervention to reduce social and economic costs and the other believes in market forces and letting things take their course.

We talked about many issues, like welfare, is it the way of life or hand up? Talked about size of government, how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, 'I'll be damned. we're Republicans.'

The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.

I've seen it with my own eyes: When government takes money from the poor and the middle class, everyone suffers.

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

The Republicans are, 'the party of the rich,' my mom said, 'We're poor, so we're Democrats.' That convinced me. I had no wish to remain poor, so I became a Republican at the age of 12.

A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so.

When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money.

We elect Democrats to Congress to give us stuff. We elect Republicans to the White House so that we don't have to pay for it.

Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another