On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice.

It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be.

You've got two people that are well known in South Dakota, respected. We'll see how it all shakes out.

President Bush has said that the ecomnomy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.

On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice.

People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care.

Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included.

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

We must correct the problems and inequities in the way we conduct and decide elections in the United States.

We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily.

When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.

Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.

Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

The campaign is over. It's time for the work of governing to begin.

It would be nice if we could clear up the nominations that are still out there, and there are a lot of them.

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

I've been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president's manner with which he handled this budget.

Let there be no doubt: the state of our union is strong - stronger than the terrorists who seek to harm us and stronger than the challenges that confront us. At the same time, we know that our union can be stronger still.

We must govern from the middle, or we will not be able to govern at all.

Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people.

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.

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

Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It's a core value - it's common sense - it's important to keeping and growing jobs - and it's mainstream!

Texans should not be taxed on our taxes.

I come from Cuba. Taxes for me are no big thing.

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.

Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in 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.

I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.

The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country.

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.

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

As I've often said, Wisconsin's greatest strength continues to be the dedicated, hardworking people of our state. They go to work everyday, pay their taxes, and raise their kids with good, Midwestern values.

The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes.

There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade.

I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.

By requiring that any surplus in Social Security taxes be returned to the American people in personal savings accounts, the plan ensures that Social Security taxes will be used for Social Security.

I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

I talked to a lot of employers who just are, are fearful of what's coming next out of Washington. It's all the spending, it's all the debt. It's their national energy tax, they want to call it cap and trade - more mandates, higher costs, more taxes. Their healthcare bill - more mandates, higher costs, higher taxes.

The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes.

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.

Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government.

The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.