You've seen my statements, I do very well, I don't mind paying some taxes. The middle class is getting clobbered in this country. You know the middle class built this country, not the hedge fund guys, but I know people in hedge funds that pay almost nothing and it's ridiculous.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

One method of preserving it is, to use it as sparingly as possible; avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear.

No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.

In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound, and everything that is sound is disagreeable.

As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.