Political Quotes

“I would like to stand here and say that as this goes forward, there can be complete public confidence in the chairman of the Committee on Finance, Senator Roth, that it will be done in a nonpartisan way. I don't think I should use the word ``bipartisan,'' because I don't think there is a Republican method of collecting taxes fairly and efficiently or a Democratic method. It is something that we must do properly as a Nation. We do well to remind ourselves that we began as a Nation in protest against taxation we thought was improper and illegal and that this issue has never been far from our concerns, although not until recently has the Committee on Finance exercised its oversight jurisdiction. It is our duty to see what is going on in this large public agency, which was founded in 1862 on the occasion when the Federal Government imposed for the first time an income tax.”