Richard Neal Quotes

Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.
Richard Neal

Power, Through, Lightning

The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on the US economy is estimated at over one billion dollars per year.
Richard Neal

Year, Economy, Number

Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.
Richard Neal

America, Wealth, Based

Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.
Richard Neal

Trade, Oppose, Outset

President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not.
Richard Neal

Crisis, Social, President

The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries.
Richard Neal

Line, Works, Defense

The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.
Richard Neal

Rich, Republican, Party

Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.
Richard Neal

Good, American, Trade

Under the Bush plan, Social Security gets weaker, not stronger.
Richard Neal

Social, Plan, Security

Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its products.
Richard Neal

United, Muslim, Calling

We can preserve Social Security benefits for generations of Americans without privatizing this important program.
Richard Neal

Important, Social, Security

We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.
Richard Neal

Stop, Tax, Arguing

But what is striking about this, in a town that often talks about tax cuts, we could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.
Richard Neal

Together, America, Working

Fundamentally, I believe that the U.S. can improve its international standing and its national security by expanding trade and strengthening its relationships with moderate Muslim countries.
Richard Neal

Security, Muslim, National

It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people.
Richard Neal

Money, After, American

It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax.
Richard Neal

Talk, Difficult, Easy

Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax.
Richard Neal

Best, American, Getting

More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care.
Richard Neal

Care, Before, Child

Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.
Richard Neal

American, Tax, Countries

People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.
Richard Neal

Important, System, Tax

The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.
Richard Neal

Tax, Avoid, Burden

The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect.
Richard Neal

Today, Together, Put

The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.
Richard Neal

America, Congress, Gone

Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask.
Richard Neal

Father, Thought, Honor

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Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: February 14, 1949

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