Warren Buffett Quotes, Government Quotes, Payroll Tax Quotes

We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the federal government. And they don't take that from me on capital gains. They don't take that from me on dividends.

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Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to stop it.

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A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Government Quotes , Long Quotes

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are, — 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and 3. Hope to all.

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Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality.

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We shouldn't assume that government is always trying to do the wrong thing.

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The more we can encourage entrepreneurship, particularly for young people, the more they have hope. That requires some reforms in these [African] governments: rooting out corruption, increased transparency and how government operates, making sure that regulations are not designed just to advantage elites, but are allowing people who have a good idea to get out there and get things done.

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Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.

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If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.

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The less government we have the better.

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If any individual who objects to government policy can take it in their own hands to publicly disclose classified information, then we will never be able to keep our people safe or conduct foreign policy.

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Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is known and feared; the worst government is hated.

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So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

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We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.

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Tags : Alan Greenspan Quotes , Government Quotes , Self Quotes

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

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The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

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Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

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The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.

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Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Government Quotes , Leader Quotes

Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.

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