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Read my lips: no new taxes. -- George H. W. Bush
You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil. -- Bill Gates
Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs. -- Marco Rubio
When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes. -- Ted Cruz
We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes. -- J. Irwin Miller
Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives. -- Karl Rove
I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like schools and hospitals functioning better, well that's obviously good for the overall productiveness of our society. -- Tony Abbott
We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again. -- Marco Rubio
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Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis. -- Michael Bloomberg
The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families. -- Bob Schieffer
You bet every member of Congress who votes for this bill ought to read it, read it thoroughly, and understand that what we're looking at here amounts to nothing more than a government takeover of our health care economy, paid for with nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes on individuals and small businesses. And it must be opposed. -- Mike Pence
Read my lips-NO NEW TAXES! -- George H. W. Bush
Wouldn't propose new taxes, but won't pledge against taxes. -- Mike Huckabee
New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. -- Andrew Cuomo
I really think people understand that in New York City we have high taxes. -- John Liu
My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes. -- Thomas Dewey
My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes. -- Thomas Dewey
Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth. -- Ronald Reagan
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If New Mexican voters believe the path to create American jobs is keeping taxes low, then they have an option. That's my campaign. -- Heather Wilson
Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future. -- Tim Johnson
Obama broke his no-new-taxes pledge 15 days after he took office when he signed legislation on Feb. 4, 2009 raising the tax on cigarettes 158 percent - 62 cents per pack. -- Bob Beauprez
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes. -- Benjamin Franklin
The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again and I'll say to them, read my lips, no new taxes. -- George H. W. Bush
Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly and blatantly violated it, but his policies have relentlessly assaulted poor and middle-income family budgets. -- Bob Beauprez

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