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"He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer."
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"We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones."
"I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax."
"One of the things we worry about when we cut the tax on gasoline is that it basically stimulates additional use."
"Tax breaks can serve a vital role in keeping and bringing jobs to our state; however, without accountability, they are little more than loopholes at taxpayers' expense."
"I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year."
"Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'"
"New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut."
"The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our nation's fiscal house in order."
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"The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don't feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit."
"Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous."
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