Kevin Brady Quotes
-
Americans deserve a simple, fairer, and flatter tax code that jumpstarts our economy, helps create jobs, and makes America a leader again.
-
What we lack is a good, strong business climate with lower taxes, fairer regulation.
-
When American workers are losing their jobs to people in other countries, Washington cannot afford to ignore this disturbing trend any longer. While Democratic presidential candidates want to just blame U.S. corporations, the reality is that their strategy won't help protect American workers or save their jobs.
-
In my view, the biggest challenge facing this country is that we are not living within our means. Spending cuts can only get us halfway there.
-
We think Medicare Advantage is a key part of healthcare and is bringing some of the innovation - I think a lot of the innovation - back to that marketplace for seniors.
-
Washington knows how to spend money.
-
I stopped - just killed - President Obama's $10-a-barrel gas tax.
-
The Fed contributed to the financial crisis, keeping interest rates too low for too long. I give them credit for responding and stabilizing the economy and the financial sector during the crisis. But then they tried to do too much with quantitative easing that went on forever, just dramatically exploding their balance sheets.
-
Inflation destroys savings, impedes planning, and discourages investment. That means less productivity and a lower standard of living.
-
I love trade. I love trade. First, it's economic freedom. It's the freedom to buy, sell, and compete with as little government interference as possible. Secondly, it's a jobs issue.
-
We need a simpler, fairer tax code that protects taxpayers. Not special interests.
-
Longer and more frequent delays for international passengers at Bush will only cede business to Houston's competitors - and the jobs that go along with it.
-
What I'm absolutely certain of is, every day we delay in accessing that Asia-Pacific region, the more we lose economically.
-
We want to deliver tax relief all across the country, no matter where you live.
-
In 2012, I helped lead the successful effort in Congress to allow states to conduct drug testing of people receiving unemployment benefits.
-
When we don't unite, we do a terrible job.
-
Tax reform for the 21st century means rewarding hardworking families by closing unfair loopholes, lowering tax rates across the board, and simplifying the tax code dramatically. It demands reducing the tax burden on American businesses of all sizes so they can keep more of their income to invest in our communities.
-
American jobs are being lost to foreign countries, and U.S. companies are urged to move their manufacturing plants, new technologies and headquarters overseas.
-
South Dakota, like a lot of rural states, small states, there are small cities with a very big work ethic, very common sense approach. That has certainly shaped me.
-
Urgency creates decision making.
-
If we truly want to achieve lasting economic growth, we need our businesses to do more business - and we need them to do it in America.
-
Full and immediate expensing is widely recognized as one of the most pro-growth tax policies around.
-
It's just wrong to work your whole life to build up a nest egg, build your own business - you pass away, and Uncle Sam can swoop in and take away nearly half of everything you've earned. Can you imagine that? Having to sell off most of your land just to keep it from the government, just to save the house.
-
And I am convinced that a single focus on preserving the purchasing power of the dollar, in effect, guarding against inflation or deflation, actually creates a solid foundation for the greatest job growth and the strongest economy that America can have.