Nigel Farage Quotes

Foreign policy debates are frequently segregated from domestic policy ones, so commentators who propose increasing the defense budget or sending more foreign aid are seldom asked to explain which domestic programs they’d cut or which taxes they’d raise, in order to find the money.

People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spending, cut taxes, that will focus on private-sector job creation.

Who's on the case when it comes to the flat tax?

I'm a conservative and I believe if you tax something more you get less of it.

I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.'

I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country.

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.

Republicans don't seem to mind taking inflation into account when the subject is tax rates.

Government should concentrate on building up infrastructure and skill development. Simplification of taxation is another important area.

If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase.

The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this.

People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

Cutting spending is harder than raising taxes. Every dollar of federal spending has a constituency.

A long term tax cut is not a tax cut at all unless it is accompanied by a spending cut.

Competition has not worked in education because it has never really been tried.

Taxes are forever; spending cuts are transitory.

The state of our state is fragile …. Our revenue system is broken because it has relied on regressive and unstable taxes …. I refuse to balance this budget on the backs of the children, the elderly, and the poor.

To deal with entitlements we must either raise taxes, cut benefits, or borrow inordinate amounts of money.

When in crisis did government get smaller?

When people lose faith in a system as they have in the public school system, they no longer want to support it.

I am increasingly ready to junk the public school system.

When I looked at it and did my homework on this issue, I concluded that a flat tax is better than a consumption tax.

My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.