Money & Finance: Money Quotes

"Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"I am prepared to discuss the things that I believe we need to do, not just to raise the debt limit. Raising the debt limit is the easiest thing. That's one vote away. The hard thing is to show the world we are serious about putting our spending in order, so we can show people we'll able to pay our bills down the road"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"We have a government that borrows $4 billion a day. We have a government that owes trillions of dollars in debt, half of that to foreigners, most of that to Chinese investors. I don't - that is extreme. Not only is it extreme. It's insane and it's unsustainable"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"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

"Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"Dying should not be a taxable event"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy"

Georg Simmel, Sociologist

"I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year"

Carly Fiorina, Businessman

"If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty"

Joe E. Lewis, Comedian

"Every American knows there are government expenses that are absolutely not necessary. I disagree with the very idea that our government is spending $2.4 trillion in the most efficient manner"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing"

Robert Kiyosaki, Author

"As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful spending"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers"

Kid Rock, Musician

"I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country"

Rahm Emanuel, Politician

"Without money, honor is merely a disease"

Jean Racine, Dramatist

"What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much"

Paul Samuelson, Economist

"There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it"

Drew Carey, Actor

"When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes"

Ann Coulter, Journalist

"There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail"

Logan P. Smith, Writer

"Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier"

Marya Mannes, Journalist

"A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others"

Larry Ellison, Businessman

"The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium"

John Moody, Businessman

"What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt"

Tom Allen, Politician

"These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things"

Tom Allen, Politician

"Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life"

Alveda King, Clergyman

"For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts, employing a variety of approaches, in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy"

Kim Campbell, Statesman

"The Republicans in the House and the Bush administration are bankrupting this country"

Tom Allen, Politician

"Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now"

Jerry Brown, Politician

"In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history"

Mark Shields, Journalist

"Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth"

David Geffen, Businessman

"When it comes to money, nobody should give up anything"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"What is there that money will not do?"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown"

Althea Gibson, Athlete

"Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him"

Dorothy L. Sayers, Author

"Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away"

Fidel Castro, Statesman

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