Quotes About Exemptions

#1. I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations.

Tom Allen

#2. I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever ... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

Adam Hasner

#3. That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of their faculties, and free choice of their occupations.

James Madison

#4. If our kids only expect blessings and exemptions, they will be terrible grown-ups.

Jen Hatmaker

#5. A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief
as well as injustice
to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.

Derrick A. Bell

#6. There is about world-class athletes carving out exemptions from physical laws a transcendent beauty that makes manifest God in man.

David Foster Wallace

#7. Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

Albert Bushnell Hart

#8. Massachusetts is seeing a surge in the number of unvaccinated children. Last year nearly 1,200 kids entered kindergarten with religious or philosophical vaccine exemptions, roughly double the total about a decade ago.

Deborah Blum

#9. The religious right is one of the most politically militant voting blocs in the country and the agenda is clear (a gun in every uterus). Time we stopped subsidizing the anti-abortion movement in the form of tax-exemptions.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#10. Regarding trials, including of our faith and patience, there are no exemptions-only variations.

Neal A. Maxwell

#11. The reason why you were allowed to get away with that in the '60s and '70s is because this country's racist administrative policies were such that rich white kids were getting exemptions. I said no exemptions.

Montel Williams

#12. Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.

Woodrow Wilson

#13. Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

Nick Rahall

#14. We had 90 percent rates, but nobody paid them. And so you had all these exemptions, exclusions, shelters, all this kind of stuff. And that's why most Americans are saying, 'Look, let's just be honest. Let's have lower rates, but everybody pays them.'

Rick Santorum

#15. Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations.

George Will

#16. We should be forced to give so many exemptions and concessions (inevitably to the benefit of high spending authorities in Inner London) that the flat-rate poll tax would rapidly become a surrogate income tax.

Nigel Lawson

#17. There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection.

Alberto Gonzales

#18. Success makes opportunities and so many of those "opportunities" are actually exemptions - from hardship, from unfriendliness, from struggle.

George Saunders

#19. When you have a tax system in which most of the exemptions and the lowest rates benefit the richest, all in the name of job creation, all that happens is that the rich get richer.

Nick Hanauer

#20. The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

Noam Chomsky

#21. A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.

Renny Harlin

#22. May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.

Don DeLillo

#23. I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.

Tamsin Greig

#24. Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do.

James Wyatt

#25. With genius, as with beauty
all, well almost all, is forgiven.

Susan Sontag

#26. I think it's very easy to get caught up and think that how many hits you get in a magazine because you were seen out somewhere has anything to do with a director's opinion of you, and whether they could use you or not.

Lisa Kudrow

#27. There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.

Gary Ackerman

#28. The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#29. The white man who is our agent is so stingy that he carries a linen rag in his pocket into which to blow his nose, for fear he might blow away something of value. - Piapot

Kent Nerburn

#30. We can share same dream, same vision but when it comes to navigate the dream is completely different kettle of fish.

Euginia Herlihy

#31. What before seemed a ... frustrating wall, the comic deftly and fearlessly steps through, proving the absurdity of it all.

Bill Hicks

#32. Genuine and innocent wit is surely the very flavor of the mind.

Moses Harvey

#33. When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.

Larry Bird

#34. Some people are meant to disappear from your life, to remain a memory, a faded possibility. A curiosity. I ought to know. But when curiosity is so easily fulfilled, how do you avoid fulfilling it? A button is pressed and you're friends again.

Catherine McKenzie