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- Nov 07, 2020
Politicians Quotes
Why politicians get so little benefit of the doubt.
This set is largely skeptical in tone, questioning politicians who talk about expanding a system they haven't fixed, and describing how fear can be turned into a tool for rallying public opinion. Related: Most.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the fair tax, which is a fair tax for everybody, because as long as we still have this messed-up tax code, the politicians are going to use it to reward winners and losers.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politicians, ideologists, theologians and philosophers try time and again to provide solutions with nothing remaining: prefab solved problems.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.
- Endowment
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost. I don't really need to do that, and I thought if I could do something for sport in Scotland, that would be really fulfilling.
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- Nov 07, 2020