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People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.

- Mitt Romney

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

- Uta Hagen

It`s so rare, so that`s why research gets so little funding. But for young people, and anyone with it, it robs them out of huge bits of their lives.

- Donna White

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

- Abbie Alft

The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.

- Amarri Jackson

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

- George Bernard Shaw

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

- Leo F. Buscaglia

There is a direct link between the federal tax cut of 2001 and state tax increases in 2003. When the federal government`s mistakes force states to raise their taxes, it not only robs Peter to pay Paul, but it hurts hard-working families and it undermines our economy`s strength.

- Senator John Kerry

Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a man of self-possession; opium greatly invigorates it.

- Thomas De Quincey