The zero-income-tax-rate states have far faster growth in tax revenues than did the states with highest income tax rate over this period.

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.

And just remember, every dollar we spend on outsourcing is spent on U.S. goods or invested back in the U.S. market. That's accounting.

It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.

The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.

And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.

People can also change the timing of when they earn and receive their income in response to government policies.

It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.

You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States.

You want to prove that Milton Friedman is a fascist? It's easy. Quote him.

With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's a classic double-whammy on inflation.

No more worlds like this / No more days like that

Is she a friend of yours?”“No, ” Diana said flatly. “She’s my mother.

It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods; To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip, Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity, Or draw a line daring them to cross.

As long as I keep getting cast, I don't care if it's typecast.

There is nothing more boring than people who love you.

Today be happy with what you have - not discontent with what you don't have.

This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies.

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

If you make something your life's work, make sure it's something you can feel proud of when you're an old relic like me.

As my Lord says, my Lord's leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my Lord, for instructing me.