Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government.

The way taxes are you might as well marry for love.

You know if you are kind of rich the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom time. I don't know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don't know how much I pay in taxes.

And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.

To say that any people are not fit for freedom is to make poverty their choice and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.