And what’s interesting, and I don’t think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, one, most new jobs are created by small businesses; two, most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Foreigners don’t want to invest any more in France – and this is not working.

Folks, you’re the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

When I was born, the economy wasn’t in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

My task over the last two years hasn’t just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.

In the middle of a recession, where we’re just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you’re not just bringing the products, but you’re also harming local manufacturers.

Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.

I just think that – when a country needs more income and we do, we’re only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that – that – when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

We didn’t become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn’t come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn’t do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.

We’re still in a recession. We’re not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

I want to reform the tax code so that it’s simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 – the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

I will cut taxes – cut taxes – for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

There’s no way that that our military power will not erode if a robust American economic revival is not part of the cards.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it’s the right thing to do. It’s economics 101, elementary stuff.

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they’re learned to do more with less, and so they don’t hire.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

The problem with being an employee or self-employed is you pay the highest taxes.

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

Trust is central to an economy that works.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

Deflation isn’t good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.