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Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.

I just don't want to pay taxes.

I think that taxes have to exist. They should exist at the lowest possible level, and to the extent that we can, we shouldn't invent more. Maybe that's my experience being mayor of New York City, where we had so many taxes.

Taxes are always too high.

Taxes are never popular.

There never has been a new tax that met with public enthusiasm.

Rail against taxes of all kinds.

A tax can never be favorable to the public welfare, except by the good use that is made of its proceeds.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

I cannot support taxing the taxpayer.

People are taxed enough.

Taxes are just too high - that's obviously a priority.

Putting, say, an 85 per cent income tax rate is unlikely to bring in much revenue.

As Ronald Reagan understood, the difference between a good tax structure and a poor one has a very real impact not only on how much money we have in our pockets every April 15th, but whether we have a job to support our families in the first place.

I love B.C., but you know what taxes are like in Canada.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

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

We had 90 percent taxes before in America. All right? Didn't work.

I do think there is room at the very top for marginal tax changes.

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

I think we're pretty much where we need to be on corporate taxes.

I've been paying a lot of money in state income taxes, and I've been happy to do it, but when this last thing happened, this 50 percent increase in the tax rate, it was just too much.

I'm against tax increases on anyone, period, end of debate.

Every time you exempt a portion of the economy from taxation you put pressure on the rest of the economy.