Loophole Quotes

#1. A tax loophole is something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.

Russell B. Long

#2. Concern for Others Loophole: We tell ourselves that we're acting out of consideration for others and making generous, unselfish decisions. Or we decide we must do something in order to fit into a social situation.

Gretchen Rubin

#3. Philosophically, the notion of a beginning of the present order of Nature is repugnant to me ... I should like to find a genuine loophole.

Arthur Eddington

#4. As a beneficiary of the carried interest loophole, I've seen firsthand the lack of any difference between the work involved in generating a carried interest and the work done by millions of other professionals who are taxed at the full 35 percent rate.

Steven Rattner

#5. The Federal Highway Administration has allowed states to take advantage of a loophole in federal regulations, delaying bridge inspections to every four years instead of the two years normally required.

Bill Dedman

#6. What is a loophole? If the law does not punish a definite action or does not tax a definite thing, this is not a loophole. It is simply the law.

Ludwig Von Mises

#7. Every systemic market injustice arose from some loophole in a regulation created to correct some prior injustice.

Michael Lewis

#8. This Doesn't Count" Loophole: We tell ourselves that for some reason, this circumstance doesn't "count.

Gretchen Rubin

#9. There are some tax expenditures that are there for very obvious and very important and very good policy reasons. Whether it's the charitable deduction or the deduction for homes, it's not a loophole.

Chuck Schumer

#10. Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.

Olympia Snowe

#11. Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.

Diane Ackerman

#12. You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.

Billy Graham

#13. I am a lawyer, and I'm always looking for a loophole.

Ella Frank

#14. It's interesting that there are only two groups of people in our country who are not held accountable for their behavior or decisions. One is exempted by the constitution, and that is foreign diplomats. The other, through a loophole, is HMOs.

Debbie Stabenow

#15. The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

Jacob Bronowski

#16. It's a tricky, complex, indifferent society, Puss. It's a loophole world. And there are a lot of clever animals who know how to reach through the loopholes and pick the pockets of the unsuspecting.

John D. MacDonald

#17. While markets are supposed to ensure transparency by showing orders to everyone simultaneously, flash orders are currently allowed because of a loophole in securities regulations that allows for immediate trades.

Charles Duhigg

#18. You don't have to be a good person to feel like a good person, though. There's a loophole I found where I don't do good, helpful things, but I keep myself in a perpetual state of thinking I might.

Allie Brosh

#19. A Tax Loophole: A deduction that the other guy gets.

Malcolm Forbes

#20. It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt or for faith, for love or repugnance, for courage or anxiety, in particular or in general, only a vague hope lives on, but no better than the inscriptions on tombstones.

Franz Kafka

#21. Fake Self-Actualization Loophole: Often, a loophole is disguised as an embrace of life or an acceptance of self, so that the failure to pursue a habit seems life-affirming - almost spiritual.

Gretchen Rubin

#22. Do not tell me that I have not shown courage in standing up to the gun people, in voting to ban assault weapons, voting for instant background checks, voting to end the gun show loophole and now in a position to create a consensus in America on gun safety.

Bernie Sanders

#23. There was a loophole in the law that said if I was working, I could be in the clubs as long as I didn't drink alcohol and had someone with me.

TyDi

#24. The Lawyers of Fate demand a loophole in every prophecy.

Terry Pratchett

#25. This, however, is sure: nothing is really lost. Any influence for good, no matter how ephemeral, makes its mark: it helps to leaven the loaf of evil: it leaves a loophole, albeit a small one, for a future escape from bondage.

Horace Annesley Vachell

#26. As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina.

Michael F. Easley

#27. You call it a 'loophole' when the government still allows you some freedom.

Ludwig Von Mises

#28. We stiffened the penalties for fraud, we extended nationwide efforts to make sure that payments are accurate and they closed a loophole in which people were gaming the system. We didn't change eligibility requirements or reduce the level of benefits.

Kevin Drum

#29. God does not hate gay people. He's just mad because they found a loophole in His system.

Daniel Tosh

#30. Death is the one predator we can't escape. But vampires have found the loophole so many of us crave. I think that's the allure of vampirism.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#31. Zeno's quote-unquote discovered a loophole in the Trust that smashes through the edict regarding love matches and divorces."

Leta Blake

#32. One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.

Jim Ryun

#33. There is one - how would you put it - loophole."
"Loophole? More like a giant cavern if I have wings.

Nalini Singh

#34. Every Christian church has tried to impose a code of morals of some kind for which it has claimed divine sanction. As these codes have always been opposed to those of the gospels a loophole has been left for moral progress such as hardly exists in other religions.

John B. S. Haldane

#35. Are you worried that, when you go to hell, you'll only be taking the local and not be on the express? Why would you look for a loophole to deny coverage to children with preexisting conditions?

Jon Stewart

#36. Obama says his recreation consists of reading the Constitution ... looking for a loophole.

Mort Sahl

#37. If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.

Austan Goolsbee

#38. So what I have said with regard to Boeing and GE and other multinationals that pay zero taxes, you know what we're going to do? We're going to end that loophole. They are going to pay their fair share of taxes.

Bernie Sanders

#39. When I was born my father spent three weeks trying to find a loophole in my birth certificate.

Jackie Vernon

#40. Mr. Kino, you're not the type who would willingly do something wrong. I know that very well. But there are times in this world when it's not enough just not to do the wrong thing. Some people use that blank space as a kind of loophole.

Haruki Murakami

#41. The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is one of the great mysteries of politics.

John Sununu

#42. What I want people to know is I went to Wall Street before the crash. I was the one saying you're going to wreck the economy because of these shenanigans with mortgages. I called to end the carried interest loophole that hedge fund managers enjoy. I proposed changes in CEO compensation.

Hillary Clinton

#43. Forget 'pray the gay away.' I you're more turned on by an AR-15 than a pair of tits, time for some serious therapy. Time for all you gun-humpers to come out of the closet. Is this really about the 2nd Amendment and self-defense
or just a pathetic fetish for guys with tiny pee-pees?

Quentin R. Bufogle

#44. Before you're allowed to own a .44, your IQ should be higher than .44.

Quentin R. Bufogle