When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets.
I don't need a $100 million mistake. Try to make a $5 million mistake if you have to make one.
We should not be a party leading with our chin in the area of taxes.
Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.
You wait till the money is there before you give it back.
[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt.
If your budget is in good shape and you are not indebted too much, you can do what the U.S. did at the beginning of the '30s - building railways, etc., but when you don't have that, you must be far more cautious.
There was no measure that required greater caution or more severe scrutiny than one to impose taxes or raise a loan, be the form what it may. I hold that government has no right to do either, except when the public service makes it imperiously necessary, and then only to the extent that it requires.
I do not want to impose additional taxes on the employers at a time when our economy is very fragile and we want to encourage them to hire.
We should be humble about our ability to stimulate the economy with monetary policy.
