Norman Tebbit Quotes

I think that Governor Romney needs to talk about the fact that what he tried to do in the state of Massachusetts was him seeing what could be best for his state, but maybe it didn't work out as well.

Historically, figuring out what to do to the tax code has been almost as contentious a political issue as judicial appointments.

I cut the taxes on everybody. I didn't cut them. The Congress cut them. I asked them to cut them.

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.

Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax.

Politics is a good thing!

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.

Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.

We know what we need to do. Let's re-elect President Obama!

I think that President Obama is beginning to realize that a lot of his plans have backfired.

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

No taxation without respiration.

Now that my wine has been served in the White House, why not me? Who could talk to farmers better than I? Somebody even asked me the other day if I had anything in my platform about taxes. 'Hell yes,' I said. 'Great state. But I wouldn't want to live there.'

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Economists have long understood that taxes do more than raise revenue for the governments that impose them; to some extent, at least, they also discourage and reduce the economic activities that are taxed.

In an election year the state of the nation is the state of politics.

Governments propose, and oppositions dispose.

Government is about hard choices.

Politics is economics in action.

That which angers men most, is to be taxed

This candid and liberal experiment having thus failed …