Dollar Quotes

"Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it's also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates"

"I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend"

"Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice"

"I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight"

"Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions out of work. Our objective was to inject some common sense into the conversation among Republicans at a time when business-as-usual simply won't work"

"Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush's budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with 'Hey, look over there, it's Saddam Hussein.'"

"Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla"

"The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime"

"Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having"

"Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half"

"Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills"

"I'm not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life"

"I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend!"

"The Six Million Dollar Man was one thing, but I wanted to keep my own parts"

"Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity"

"If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't"

"Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else"

"We've turned down multi million dollar films, simply because we liked the film better. We have the luxury to do so - we have projects that make the money, and others that we do for love"

"I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States. After all, there was a great dollar shortage. It was quite clear that the more prosperous Europe became, the more business there would be in the United States"

"Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working"

"The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany"

"Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help"

"If you are born into a family below the national median income, we provide you with an additional $500, and for every contribution made to a child's account below the national median income, we match it dollar for dollar - the federal government will"

"Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room"

"We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar"

"Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar"

"You know, I'm not making top dollar, but when you're making top dollar, there are a lot of people waiting for you to fall"

"And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over"

"We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money"

"They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead"