Money & Finance: Money Quotes

"Our liquidity is fine. As a matter of fact, it's better than fine. It's strong"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else"

Tom Waits, Musician

"Trillions of dollars every day are being exchanged around the world in all of the financial markets"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it"

Finley Peter Dunne, Journalist

"Since our economy is closely allied with that of foreign countries, not one of us can be indifferent to what consequences these disturbances can have at home and abroad"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

"My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of funds until 2042"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard"

Sherrod Brown, Politician

"Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand, like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax"

Michael Steele, Politician

"Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending"

Mike Pence, Politician

"Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money"

Howard Dean, Politician

"Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods"

David Ricardo, Economist

"Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration"

David Ricardo, Economist

"It's a sin to have your films not to make money"

Ellen Burstyn, Actress

"It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce"

David Ricardo, Economist

"In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods"

David Ricardo, Economist

"Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money"

Dennis Rodman, Athlete

"Instead, there were a variety of controls of which some could be influenced by bankers, some could be influenced by the government, and some could hardly be influenced by either"

Carroll Quigley, Writer

"I've been a strong financial and political supporter of, first, President Bush Sr. when he was running for president, and even when he ran for president a time or two and failed"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health"

Clarence Day, Author

"Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money"

Thelonious Monk, Musician

"There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive"

Richard Stallman, Scientist

"Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial"

Frank Dane, Writer

"A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason we've got low unemployment and have created more than two million jobs in the last year"

J. D. Hayworth, Politician

"Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high"

J. D. Hayworth, Politician

"One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don't get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home"

Alphonso Jackson, Public Servant

"If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"Global fuel and consumption, however, is projected to increase by 100 to 150 percent over the next 20 years, driven largely by the rapidly growing Chinese and Indian economies; and this growth and this increase in demand will force prices even higher"

John Shadegg, Politician

"I never cared about money"

Jeanette Winterson, Novelist

"Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue"

Francois Rabelais, Clergyman

"Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?"

Dorothy Thompson, Journalist

"All we're getting from the Democratic majority in Congress and from this White House is more bailouts, more spending, more planned stimulus, more deficits and debt, and the American people have had it"

Mike Pence, Politician

"The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state"

David Ricardo, Economist

"The exchangeable value of all commodities, rises as the difficulties of their production increase"

David Ricardo, Economist

"If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it"

David Ricardo, Economist

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