Tax reductions are usually simpler and less distortive. I'm certainly willing to look at getting rid of tax deductions/credits, and go to dramatically reduced rates.
Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.
The more there is a European solution to a theoretical, but possible, problem in the markets, the less we will have to talk about an I.M.F. solution.
The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience.
But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.
Your cells are not working as hard as your dog's but harder than your horse's. The bigger the animal, the less energy needed to sustain a gram of tissue.
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
The more we train a man to labor, deliberate, dictate and demand over the inconsequential, the less capable his mind becomes of holding that of consequence.
They forget that for a Creator to create, He must be greater than His creation, thus He must be by definition not less than emotional.
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
I'm quite proud of some of the films I've done, but less for the acting than for the fact that they're unpretentious and entertaining. I'm proud of having made unpretentious choices.
I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better.
Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal.
I've learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.
When I was a child, I understood the things of my childhood. Now that I have grown into a man, I understand less of the world than I did as a lad.
There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.
I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.
Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.
I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.
I love Las Vegas because it's the one city less classy than Los Angeles.
