Arthur Laffer Quotes
The zero-income-tax-rate states have far faster growth in tax revenues than did the states with highest income tax rate over this period.
Quotes to Explore
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.
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I like deconstructing things. I like cutting the legs out from under something that feels secret.
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When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?
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I don't think it's fair that we cannot guarantee every child in this country a great education and that, in New York City, in some cases, your child is at risk in some part because of the policies the union endorses.
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My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
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I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.
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How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
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The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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Having principled men and women in office is how you protect yourself from tyranny, and that was something I learned from when I was 2, 3, 5 years old.
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The success of ISIS is largely tied to the safe haven it has in Syria.
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I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.
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Too many of us suffer from pervasive feelings of personal powerlessness. We have a terrible habit of obstructing our own paths forward, especially at the worst possible moments.
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Diana Vreeland was "the Empress," the avatar of the age. An old name or old money were not enough to get you into Studio 54 - or Interview magazine, for that matter. You had to have a lot of something else, like looks or brains or wit or fabulous clothes.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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Recession-resistant development produces things people need. Unsustainable growth churns out tinsel products that consumers have to be seduced into buying - until times get tough, when they quickly give them up.
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I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.
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The zero-income-tax-rate states have far faster growth in tax revenues than did the states with highest income tax rate over this period.
