Barack Obama Quotes

Tax cuts are an investment in working families.

We in Tennessee know that low taxes, less government, and less spending are the ways to grow our economy.

If New Mexican voters believe the path to create American jobs is keeping taxes low, then they have an option. That's my campaign.

made it a catechism that low taxes solve everything

Make taxes as low as possible so entrepreneurs have incentive to work hard and be creative. The human mind is the secret to economic growth.

I would like to get the tax rate as low as possible so that businesses want to create jobs here.

At the end of the day, Republican-driven tax reform is not only going to be good for the economy and for growth. It's going to be good for middle-class Americans.

I want to make it very clear that this middle-class tax cut, in my view, is central to any attempt we're going to make to have a short-term economic strategy and a long-term fairness strategy, which is part of getting this country going again.

When your economy is kind of ooching along, it's important to let people have more of their own money.

I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes-I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em

The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.

I'm always for lower taxes because lower taxes make people want to do things. Less burden, more fun, and economics is about people wanting to have fun. Growth is fun for people in the marketplace.

Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.

That tax relief can spur the economy and thereby benefit all Americans is something that Washington Democrats used to understand. President Kennedy, for example, aggressively cut taxes after being elected to stimulate the economy as a means of helping all Americans.

Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs.

Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.

In a zero corporate tax rate environment, if the private sector doesn't create tens of millions of jobs, then I don't know what it takes to create tens of millions of jobs.

Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.

Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.

You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.

I think we need to have competitive tax rates in order to create jobs in this country. And I think it should be fair.

Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax rates, when President Bush imposed those tax cuts, they actually generated economic growth. They expanded the economy. They expand tax revenues.

As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.

What we lack is a good, strong business climate with lower taxes, fairer regulation.

If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you might do is you might finally put this economy over another cliff. These millionaires and billionaires are the folks that try to create jobs and help grow the economy.