Will Rogers Quotes

We're asking those who have done well to do a little more for the people who need it.

Speaker Pelosi says unemployment benefits are economic stimulus. Those are bare-bones benefits.

Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and give them to farmers and insolvent banks. The compelling issue to both conservatives and liberals is not whether it is legitimate for government to confiscate one's property to give to another, the debate is over the disposition of the pillage.

Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.

The rich support the poor primarily via taxes.

Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.

Subsidize... or lend.

Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.

I think, with Obama and the progressives, you've seen a massive expansion of big government, and it's all based on a moral premise. The moral premise is that wealth is theft. And I don't just mean the wealth of America, I mean, your wealth, my wealth.

It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.

Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and give them to farmers and insolvent banks.

We're here for the duration and we're not going to starve. We're going to keep ourselves a simon-pure veteran's organization. If the Bonus is paid it will relieve to a large extent the deplorable economic condition.

You don’t just cut off a bread subsidy after 60 years.

I want to help the middle class.

Tax cuts that actually go to working-class, middle-class people, I'm not opposed to.

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.

The government cannot become a bailout organization for companies on the verge of bankruptcy.

In 1978, '79, if you were unemployed, you didn't have an phone, you didn't have a big-screen TV, you didn't have air-conditioned house, and you weren't guaranteed to be eating three meals a day. You had welfare, you had unemployment, but you didn't have the kind of government support system/safety nets that exist today. So that's a difference. But today the economic circumstances really no different.

I do believe that we should substantially lower student debt in this country, which is crushing millions of people. We pay for it, in my view, by a tax on Wall Street speculation. The middle class bailed out Wall Street in their time of need. Now, it is Wall Street's time to help the middle class.

A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are so willing to blithely put such an enormous and dangerous arbitrary power in the hands of politicians – risking their own freedom, in hopes of getting what someone else has – is a painful sign of how far many citizens and voters fall short of what is needed to preserve a democratic republic

Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

There is nothing conservative about bailing out Wall Street. Likewise, there is nothing progressive about billion dollar loans to millionaires to build solar panels.

I'm not living off of any taxpayer money. If I am - if it's food stamps, it's a temporary resource.

Cash is cold comfort under these circumstances. But make no mistake about it; It is some comfort.