Iskrena Quotes & Sayings

As income taxes and capital-gains taxes were reduced in the United States beginning in the 1980s, the share of federal taxes paid by "the rich" steadily went up. From 1980 to 2010, as the top 1 percent increased their share of before-tax income from 9 percent to 15 percent, their share of the individual income tax soared from 17 percent to 39 percent of the total paid. Their share of total federal taxes more than doubled during a period when the highest marginal tax rate was cut in half, from 70 percent to 35.5 percent. The wealthy, in short, are already paying more than their fair share of taxes, and the growth in their wealth and incomes has had nothing to do with tax avoidance or deflecting the tax burden to the middle class. — James Piereson

I'm making fun of midwestern homophobia [in the joke], but I'm still saying faggot. And almost every month as I'm doing that joke it gets five percent less of a laugh. — Neal Brennan

Guys are like dogs - they can always tell when you're needy. — Ally Carter

He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important. — Tim O'Brien

I always feel I'm an amateur. I don't most of the time know what I'm doing. — Steve McQueen

Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it. — Shere Hite

God's philosophy is simpler than the simplest: Never give up, never give up! — Sri Chinmoy

I want to have enough space to, I don't know, think thoughts. I mean, I just - I don't know that I'm capable of having an exciting, profound thought every week that's worth a column. — David Plotz

How many times have you been called an abomination?" he whispers. "A monster? Worthless?"
Too many times. — Marie Lu

I quite love sequins; I think it's the drag queen in me. — Sienna Miller

I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace. — Pope Benedict XVI