“Taxes are at the core of our democracy.”
Perfectly Legal (2005)
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Investigative journalist and author 1948Related quotes
2012, " The Fair Tax Isn't Fair, It's a Farce http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=7101"
March 29, 1967, page 248.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council

Sheik Youssef Al-Qaradhawi in Favor of Democratic Elections in the Arab World http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/129.htm June 2004.
Democracy

“Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.”
European Parliament, Brussels, March 6, 2009. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19718.html
Secretary of State (2009–2013)

" Whodunit? Who Meddled With Out Democracy? https://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer/2018/02/10/whodunit-who-meddled-with-our-democracy-n2446787" February 10, 2018, Townhall.com
2010s, 2018

“No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains
To tax our labours and excise our brains.”
Night, an Epistle to Robert Lloyd (1761), line 271

Clive Foss, The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption, London: Quercus Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1905204965, p. 195
Attributed

Speaking at a political fundraiser for Hillary Rodham Clinton in New York, as quoted in Henry Goldman, "Buffett, at Clinton Fund-Raiser, Says Congress Favors the Rich" in Bloomberg (27 June 2007) http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aks_E_vUEip8
Context: The 400 of us pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter. If you're in the luckiest 1 percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.
“Our leaders invent nothing but new taxes, and conquer nothing but the pockets of their subjects.”
Source: The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted (1832), p. 14