Fairness dictates that the highest income people should pay the greatest share of taxes, and they do.

Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring.

Everyone else is parsing it in terms of lowering the corporate income tax. Eliminate it. It's not that big of a generator of income, and it's a double tax. Get rid of it, and you would have an explosion of hiring.

I used to get taxed on my allowance. Yeah, I've been taxed since I was a little kid. And at the end of the year I had to pick a charity to donate my taxes to.

Republicans spend and borrow, Democrats tax and spend.

For years, comprehensive tax reform has eluded legislators.

You don't raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

What we need is fundamental tax reform.

I think we're pretty much where we need to be on corporate taxes.

That darn luxury tax is pretty painful.

I would rather we limited - for the sake of transparency - we limited the number of taxes that we had and we were right up front about what they are, how much they are, and so forth.

We have made a decision in our economy to lower taxes on successful risk-taking and have been very successful relative to Europe and Japan.

Social Security is a tax.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

The critical thing is that we have to reduce the tax burden.

The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.

I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.