"If a tax hike makes it to..." - Quote by Ronald Reagan

“Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks.”

“For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals. You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?”

“There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.”

“I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.”

“Nobody likes taxes. I would prefer that none of us had to pay taxes, including myself.”

“People who think a tax boost will cure inflation are the same ones who believe another drink will cure a hangover.”

“Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.”

“We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.”

“[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.”