"Washington is a place where politicians don’t know which way is up and taxes don’t know which way is down."
― Robert Orben
Topic(s):
Government
More From Robert Orben
- "Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it’s filled with wisdom. Sometimes it’s filled with feet."
- "Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success."
- "Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work."
More In Government
- "One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk."― Ron Fournier
- "Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."― Ronald Reagan
- "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency."― Douglas MacArthur