Money & Finance: Money Quotes

"In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently"

Jane D. Hull, Politician

"The crowd doesn't give a crap as long as you bring the money in"

Guy Lafleur, Athlete

"If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining"

David Korten, Activist

"We should be moving toward local currencies, not global or European currencies"

David Korten, Activist

"My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased, often faster than the wages"

David Korten, Activist

"When money follows results - we will get more results for our money"

Bob Riley, Politician

"The economic recession in America wasn't caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America"

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Politician

"With the shrinking of the US economy, and its shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's a classic double-whammy on inflation"

Arthur Laffer, Economist

"The trade deficit is the capital surplus, and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country"

Arthur Laffer, Economist

"Let me just try to give you sort of the intuitive one here on the stimulus funds. If you have a two-person economy - let's imagine we have two farms, and that's the whole world, just two farms. If one of those farmers gets unemployment benefits, who do you think pays for him? Am I going way over your heads today?"

Arthur Laffer, Economist

"It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011"

Arthur Laffer, Economist

"That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax"

Herman Cain, Businessman

"My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayers' money, and that cut pretty deep"

William Weld, Politician

"The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god"

Scott Alexander, Author

"When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem"

Richard J. Needham, Cartoonist

"The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity"

Tom Harkin, Politician

"I believe Wall Street needs serious ongoing regulation"

Andrew Cuomo, Politician

"Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual"

William Graham Sumner, Businessman

"The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay"

William Graham Sumner, Businessman

"We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because otherwise, in this context of international turmoil, every country would have to devalue their currencies"

Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Politician

"I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

"Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

"A very difficult year is ahead of us. We must continue our efforts with decisiveness to stay in the euro, to make sure we do not waste the sacrifices and do not turn the crisis into an uncontrolled and disastrous bankruptcy"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

"In the 20 years before Greece end up with the Euro, efforts to improve competitiveness through exchange rate and adjustments resulted only in temporary gains of competitiveness"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

"Dealing with Greece's problems will be more difficult if Greece is not a member of the eurozone"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

"Especially today, given the tight fiscal situation that many States and localities face, the use of transportation facilities that pay for themselves without additional Federal funding is essential"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"More cuts were needed to avoid exiting the Eurozone"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

"I am personally convinced - and I think the Greek people share this belief in a fundamental way - that we can achieve fiscal consolidation more effectively and we can restore competitiveness in a more fundamental and permanent way within the euro area than outside"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

"The government is determined to continue the process of fiscal consolidation and structural reform in order to secure sound public finances and improve the country's international competitiveness"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

"So it won't be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens, and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

"It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000"

Klaus Kinski, Actor

"The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis"

Susan George, Activist

"One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions"

Pierre Salinger, Public Servant

"I think the funds that have been pledged at Euro Summit, combined with the outcome of the private sector involvement process, should be sufficient in order to support financially the Greek Economy"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

"Over the past two years, the House has passed more than 50 measures focused on stimulating the economy and expanding opportunities for American workers. The tax relief provisions in this package have been an important part of our pro-growth agenda"

Roger Wicker, Politician

"I make movies for money, exclusively for money"

Klaus Kinski, Actor

"I know people are looking at what's happening in Washington, and then they also look at events in Europe, in Greece and Portugal, and other places, and worry about that"

Julia Gillard, Statesman

"The ECB's interventions in sovereign bond markets should not be perceived or interpreted as a 'freebie' for governments. They are temporary"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

"I think it's often discussed that leaving the Euro is an option for Greece. I think this is really not an option!"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

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