Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.
BARACK OBAMA, SR.You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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While we breathe, we will hope.
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Greatness is never free; it must be earned.
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Hope – Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us. A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.
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We don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.
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It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy.
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If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
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One thing I don’t like is when you disrespect the law.
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Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune.
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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had – to find the greatness that lies within each of us.
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The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
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