Money Quotes

"The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money"

Robert Byrd, Politician

"It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber"

Robert Fulghum, Author

"One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train"

Morihei Ueshiba, Athlete

"So that's why I said, if you look at the average, you would see the money New York got this year was in line with the average across the prior three years and substantially more, by a country mile, than the money given to any other city"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"And one of the things we did here was we put the maximum amount of money up front in those cities that were at the greater risk, but that doesn't mean that we keep rebuilding the same security over and over again"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer"

Keenen Ivory Wayans, Comedian

"The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office"

John Cusack, Actor

"We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go"

Humphrey Bogart, Actor

"Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance"

Ron Chernow, Author

"A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse"

Ron Chernow, Author

"The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things"

Chris Christie, Politician

"I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more?"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and, candidly, across the country, where increased taxes is just the wrong way to go. The people of our state are not convinced that state government, county government, local government has done all they can with the money we already give them, rather than the money that we have before"

Chris Christie, Politician

"As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it"

Jay-Z, Musician

"There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you go in because there's money in there, you're bound to fail, bound to fail!"

Joan Chen, Actress

"I take more jobs when I need more money, if I'm investing in films. I take fewer when I don't. Or if something really good comes along, I usually find a way to do a good job on it in the time that I've got"

John Sayles, Director

"I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?"

Don Bluth, Artist

"Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money"

Gary Larson, Cartoonist

"If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!"

William Shatner, Actor

"I know where I'm putting my money"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping the money flows or whatever, but the really difficult part is integrating all aspects of the policy, and I think she put a lot of emphasis on that"

Lee H. Hamilton, Politician

"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money"

John Sayles, Director

"An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"Not that money is a driving force. It's an honor to play for your country"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits"

David Ricardo, Economist

"I never take on anything that is just for the money or just for, you know. I always have to connect with it in a very personal way because I believe the audience will sense whether I'm into it or not, so I don't take on projects that I'm not really passionate about"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation"

James A. Garfield, President

"You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money"

David Ricardo, Economist

"If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it"

Neville Marriner, Musician

"I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or have capacity to gain access to large amounts of money"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea"

Federico Garcia Lorca, Poet

"But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder"

David Cronenberg, Director

"There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq"

Bob Schaffer, Politician

"One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for economic prosperity and that we can be trusted with their money"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure"

Charles Schumer, Politician

"No, I was pleased that it is possible for somebody who makes full disclosure as I've done, not only of the contributors, but also how the money is spent"

Bill Scott, Actor

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