But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.

The death tax is growing increasingly unpopular with the American people, and it's for obvious reasons. They know double taxation when they see it. They know that if they pay income tax, they pay capital gains tax, they pay sales tax, that it's absolutely, fundamentally, inherently wrong to make death another taxable event.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them

It is far more important that (the draft constitution) be hammered out by the Iraqi people than it is for people from the US to try to find a solution,

There's a real question whether we want to get all those people back into New Orleans. It's more logical that the money should follow the people.