“We can't legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created.” Quote by Mike Lee
“When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.” CountryHardGovernmentCertainLevelsSpendingAccustomedGovernment SpendingRatchets Author:Mike Lee
“When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.” WayDoorsMore MoneyGoing OutRevenueTrimming Author:Mike Lee
“The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantWarFormPracticeIssuesCongressSpendingBudgetsPerpetualBalancedRepresentationTaxationDeficitBarbaricBalanced BudgetDeficit SpendingTaxation Without Representation Author:Mike Lee
“The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.” NeedsStatesDifferencesPartyMovementLimitsTeaPerceiveRecognizingTea PartyTea Party Movement Author:Mike Lee
“Whether it's a penalty or a tax, it's all one in the same. It's coming out of somebody's hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and that's the point. So in some ways, to me, it's a distinction without a difference.” WayHardDifferencesTaxesDistinctionComing OutPenaltiesPocketbooks Author:Mike Lee
“You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It's just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play.” KnowsPlayGovernmentIndividualForceCausesNaturalEffortEconomyTakenBasesInvestmentAccountability Author:Mike Lee
“I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it doesn't mean a thing to me. But I haven't got any money, so, you know, I just keep on working.” KnowsMeanLongEnoughHavensRetiredPrerogativeEnough Is Enough Author:Mike Leigh
“But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.” ThinkingFilmSophisticatedCinematic Author:Mike Leigh
“But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you’re not snooping into somebody else’s lives?” IfsShouldFilmSnooping Author:Mike Leigh
“I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.” DifferentAbleLyingStuffEnvironmentComedyFocusMediaWingsAdministrationGet AwayRight Wing Author:Al Franken
