Jon Kyl Quotes

The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

Jon Kyl

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• Get rid of the preferences and the special deductions and the loopholes... and invest in getting the tax rate to a competitive level so we stop seeing companies move off shore.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Stop
  • Special
  • Tax

• My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • You
  • Taken
  • Taxes

• In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• I always get the 'goth girl' thing because I wear black. But I don't worship death.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • Death
  • Black
  • Girl

• The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Men
  • Death
  • Black

• I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Death
  • Know
  • Hard

• I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Death
  • Years
  • Everyday

• My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Today

• He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.

  

  Jack London
  • Life
  • Death
  • Perfect

• We are at a unique moment in history - when a woman’s body is affected, we say the choice is hers; but when a boy’s body is affected, we say the choice is not his - the law requires our 18 year old sons to register for the draft, and therefore potential death-if-needed.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • History
  • Death
  • Law

• The fountain of death makes the still water of life play.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Death
  • Water

• Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.

  

  Edward Young
  • Death
  • Blow

• Death - by hanging! - that, at least, I did not deserve. The death part - all right, somebody has to stand for the responsibility. But that - that I did not deserve!

  

  Alfred Jodl
  • Death
  • Responsibility

• Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Nature
  • Death

• When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • People
  • Death
  • College

• Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

  

  David Hume
  • Death
  • Friend
  • Powerful

• Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Life
  • Death
  • Feeling

• Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it's probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.

  

  Banksy
  • World
  • Movie
  • Option

• A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Chief
  • Minister
  • Warfare

• Seeing people ahead of time and getting acquainted with the space you're playing in is important to getting comfortable in that place.

  

  Brian Bell Weezer
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• In the pulpit, we're supposed to present the teaching with all of its unvarnished clarity, but when you step out of the pulpit, you have to meet people where they are and try to walk with them.

  

  Donald Wuerl
  • People
  • Present

• The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

  

  Jon Kyl
  • Death
  • Tax
  • Immoral