Steve Forbes Quotes

#1. As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling and cutting corners grew exponentially. Power breeds corruption.

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#2. You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.

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#3. People are not going to reelect Barack Obama. But will the new president govern as a real conservative? We're going to have to apply the heat to make sure.

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#4. The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.

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#5. The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.

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#6. What you do as president has consequences.

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#7. The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here.

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#8. The words, 'penalty,' 'restrict' and 'violate' appeared more times in President Clinton's health care reform bill than in his crime bill.

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#9. The tax code is a monstrosity and there's only one thing to do with it. Scrap it, kill it, drive a stake through its heart, bury it and hope it never rises again to terrorize the American people.

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#10. There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.

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#11. And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporate shenanigans.

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#12. We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.

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#13. It can't help but knock things down.

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#14. If a man breaks a pledge, the public ought to know it.

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#15. One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.

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#16. Duarte is a moderate when it comes to civilian control of the military and curbing death squads. On economics, the man is almost a Marxist.

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#17. The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.

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#18. The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians.

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#19. You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business
along with the short memory of our readers.

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#20. Contrary to the cliche', genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it.

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#21. As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.

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#22. The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.

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#23. The most laughable White House criticism is that tax cuts are a 'free lunch.' The American people's work created that money. Only in Washington could there be a belief that letting people keep more of what they create is a giveaway.

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#24. No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.

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#25. A promise made should be a promise kept.

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#26. Your brand is the single most important investment you can make in your business

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#27. Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.

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#28. There's plenty of juice to keep this economy going.

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#29. Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.

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#30. I think the idea of trying to demonize Governor Romney's going to backfire. Their attempts so far have failed pretty outstandingly and I think at the end of the day, people are going to say, 'what was Obama's record?' Governor Romney's got pro-growth Reaganesque proposals on the table.

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