We are doing really exceptionally well by any measure.

I think we should debate the issue of a surtax on the highest income people this year.

Taxing qualified dividends at the same low rate as capital gains for all taxpayers reduces the tax bias against equity investment and promotes a more efficient allocation of capital.

You are going to have to prove that to me, because I do not believe it one bit.

I wish you would work a little less hard on some of these crazy ideas that this administration has.

As you know, on January 1, 2013, when the tax decreases of 2001 and 2003 sunset, our Nation is going to see a $3.5-trillion tax increase.

There are no entitlement reforms being offered by this administration.

if there are no actions by the end of this year, ordinary income and dividends will face a top tax rate of 39.6 percent, and the capital gains rate will rise to 20 percent.

We have to have this debate. We are not going to be able to delay these choices indefinitely.

Well, I think we are over-taxed now. I do not want to raise revenues.

With current law, if we do not change it, the middle class is going to get socked.

I see us as at 100 percent of GDP in national debt.

Are you telling me the deficit is going to go down? I do not believe that.

It is not a heck of a lot of money because it goes away.

the key in 1986 was of course the presidential bully pulpit

But why does the President want to raise taxes in any way on small businesses with unemployment at 8.3 percent?

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.