#own

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death. ↗

— Peter Conrad

#announcement #death #faith #first #i

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#cut #down #drown #get #goal

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#drown #goal #government #our #shrink

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#clinton #everyone #known #obama #once

Obama wants to take the individual small business tax to 44 percent, and the corporate rate - he says - down to 28 percent or whatever. But that really damages the small businesses. And it doesn't make us competitive. You got to take them both down to 20, because state and local corporate taxes are 5 percent. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#both #business #businesses #competitive #corporate

The question is: How do we reduce spending from 25% of GDP, which is where Obama put us? The focus is on total government spending. Can we bring it down, in a reasonable and politically acceptable way? That's what the Paul Ryan plan does. It puts us on a gradual reform path to reducing the size of government. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#bring #does #down #focus #gdp

Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do that. That would slow down economic growth. It's not necessarily helpful to the economy. Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#arguing #been #capital #capital gains #certainly

The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s. ↗

— Alex North

#arts #certain #countries #culture #down

I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington. ↗

— Douglass North

#close #close friend #continue #enjoyed #first

The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the taking more than 4 l. per cent Interest for Money lent, or to leave the Borrower and Lender to make their own Bargains. ↗

— Dudley North

#borrower #cent #considered #government #interest