Political Quotes

“I have Americans on my mind today, and I am concerned that maybe some of us are not listening, especially the President and the Democrats, to America as closely as they should. One stark realization, when I was home over the Easter break a few days ago, is that I filed and paid my taxes, like 115 million other Americans did. I imagine that most of them were a little bit upset after they paid the taxes. More than two-thirds of all taxpaying Americans, in a recent poll, think taxes are too high. Well, that is not a very revealing thing, because we know two-thirds of them probably pay taxes and they probably think they are too high. A third think they are about right, and just 1 percent think they are too low. Americans are a little upset--the people I talked to--and they have good reason to be. The Federal Government demands more and more of their hard-earned money and gives less and less in return. But I believe that this President, in the 1993 tax bill or the budget that at that time would put the biggest tax increase on the American people that this country had ever seen, was wrong on taxes and was also wrong on spending--both ends of the spectrum.”