Our current tax code is one that was designed by and for the benefit of politicians and lobbyists. It punishes achievement and rewards laziness. It punishes the voting blocks unimportant to politicians, and rewards voting blocks who keep them in office.
The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies.
Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations.
An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his [sic] creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious ourselves.
In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it.
I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.
It is time to put in place tough, new common-sense rules of the road so that our financial market rewards drive and innovation, and punishes short-cuts and abuse.
I've said it from the very beginning: Fighting the best guys in the world doesn't pay as good as the circus. I want to join the circus. I'm trying to get that circus money.
I didn't confide in men. Well, I didn't confide in anyone.
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
Our nation's tax code is a broken mess of rules and regulations. It rewards special interests, punishes success and holds back millions of Americans seeking better jobs, higher wages, and greater opportunities.
When I worked with Gianni Versace at the end of his life, I was the person with whom he would confide and say anything. If there was something I didn't like, I would be honest and say, "No, no, no! Do something different."