Money & Finance: Money Quotes

"I always feel like there is some dude out there with money that I could fall back on if I needed to"

Kirstie Alley, Actress

"During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history"

Gavin Newsom, Politician

"The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole that's getting deeper and deeper and deeper"

Peter Ueberroth, Businessman

"If these assets were set up as a revolving fund with which Japan could import raw materials for its industries, Japanese exports could again enter the channels of world trade-and Japanese workers would have employment and something to eat"

James Forrestal, Public Servant

"Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule, but it was very good for the time"

Robert Vaughn, Actor

"I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money"

Michael Gambon, Actor

"Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people"

Mark Cuban, Businessman

"For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford"

Paul Martin, Politician

"Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy"

Gloria Swanson, Actress

"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

"The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want, and did not need, and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world"

Garet Garrett, Journalist

"One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment"

Chris Christie, Politician

"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

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

Gordon Sinclair, Journalist

"Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must, and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts"

Chris Christie, Politician

"I never thought to ever ask for money. I was so stupid"

Anna Nicole Smith, Model

"This Budget reflects a choice - not an easy choice, but the right choice. And when you think about it, the only choice. The choice to take the responsible, prudent path to fiscal stability, economic growth and opportunity"

George Pataki, Politician

"Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight"

Dan Lipinski, 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

"People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"I ain't got nothing. I've got this watch, and these shoes, and that's about it"

Anthony Anderson, Actor

"I'm not averse to helping Wall Street when it helps Main Street"

Ben Nelson, Politician

"You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate, the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?"

Rick Perry, Politician

"In Michigan, a liberal Democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down"

Rick Perry, Politician

"The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce"

Armstrong Williams, Journalist

"The American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking, 'How can I tax my neighbor more than they're being taxed?' They say, 'How can I get a good job? How can my kids get good jobs? How can seniors have a confidence in their future when they know that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt?'"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it"

Joel Osteen, Clergyman

"I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"America is not better off than it was $1.8 trillion dollars ago"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen"

Rick Perry, Politician

"We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years"

Rick Perry, Politician

"Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans, and other misguided economic theories have given record debt, and left us with far too many unemployed"

Rick Perry, Politician

"President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity"

Rick Perry, Politician

"I think you need to have a tax system that basically is flat, fair and simple. And - that you can put on a post card. I mean, even Timothy Geithner could do this one and get it on time"

Rick Perry, Politician

"I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesn't make any difference what the interest rate is. They're not - they're not going to loan the money because they can't make any money for one thing, plus the cost of compliance"

Rick Perry, Politician

"If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system?"

Joseph Stiglitz, Economist

"First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity"

Thomas E. Mann, Sociologist

"Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything, may reasonably be expected to do everything for money"

Edward F. Halifax, Statesman

"We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation"

Anthony Burgess, Novelist

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