Rob Simmons Quotes

• My opponents attitude is, ‘If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it.

  Rob Simmons

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Moving, Tax

• We’ve got to help small businesses because they are the backbone of our economy. We’ve got to increase opportunities for everyone and we can do that by helping women and minority-owned businesses.

  Rob Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Help, Small

• There’s been a lot said about Social Security reform. What has been left out of the debate is the double tax on Social Security benefits. I believe it’s time to get rid of a tax that punishes seniors and discourages work and retirement savings.

  Rob Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Said, Social

• The 1993 Social Security tax penalizes seniors who have planned for their retirement through savings, investment and hard work. That’s wrong, and that’s why the double tax on Social Security must end.

  Rob Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in End, Must, Hard

• Indictments of any kind are serious. That being said, let’s not forget that an indictment is not a conviction. We still have due process in this country.

  Rob Simmons

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Forget, Kind

• The best governor in the world is the person who never really planned to be governor.

  Rob Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Best, Person, Governor

• The Silent Service is all together too silent. It’s important to begin to highlight the critical importance of the Silent Service to our national security.

  Rob Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important, Together

• We’re quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers.

  Rob Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Moving, Nation, Point

Rob Simmons (8)

Birth:	11th February, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Professor

About

Robert Ruhl "Rob" Simmons is a retired U.S. Army Colonel and former U.S. Congressman from Connecticut. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2007, representing Connecticut's Second Congressional District as a Republican.

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