Money & Finance: Money Quotes

"I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and dreamed up, but it's not working"

Rick Perry, Politician

"As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens"

Rick Perry, Politician

"As long as they're willing to pay to prove it, I'm willing to let them"

Arnold Rothstein, Businessman

"The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam"

Tony Snow, Journalist

"Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money, the world's problems will be solved"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"There's a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain't got it"

James Caan, Actor

"The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York"

Ron Chernow, Author

"In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women"

Ginny B. Waite

"Well, our economy is very strong and growing. We have created 5.4 million new jobs in the last 3 years. Our unemployment rate is better than the average unemployment rate of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s"

Ric Keller, Politician

"Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich"

Dinesh D'Souza, Author

"I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money"

Nat King Cole, Musician

"You replace it by 23 percent tax, a frank, transparent tax embedded in the cost at retail, and everybody gets to takes their whole check home. And the average income earner gets a 50 percent increase in take-home pay"

John Linder, Politician

"The American people want economic prosperity, high-quality goods and low prices, all of which I support"

John Linder, Politician

"We will not lose this election for lack of money"

Ed Rendell, Politician

"Money is a never-ending problem"

Alvin Ailey, Dancer

"The big things I've had are things I bought myself"

Balthazar Getty, Actor

"Everybody's over here to make money for themselves"

Betty Hill, Celebrity

"We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible"

Peter Camejo, Businessman

"I'm satisfied it's very black, meaning 'in the black'"

Robert Conrad, Director

"What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which, in fairness to the government of this country, they have accepted and admitted"

Olusegun Obasanjo, Statesman

"The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time"

Willem de Kooning, Artist

"The more money, the louder it talks"

Arnold Rothstein, Businessman

"Once Playboy came to me, all the preachers ran. I needed to pose in Playboy to make money"

Jessica Hahn, Celebrity

"We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the income tax rate is the single most important thing we can do to create opportunity"

Ernie Fletcher, Politician

"I always ignore money"

Damien Hirst, Artist

"There's way easier ways to make money, let's just put it that way"

Sebastian Bach, Musician

"Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that"

Stephen F. Lynch, Politician

"We will work to bring an element of stability to the price of oil"

Olusegun Obasanjo, Statesman

"We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us"

T. Boone Pickens, Businessman

"Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports"

Manmohan Singh, Statesman

"If you don't have a functioning financial system, the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed"

Manmohan Singh, Statesman

"Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative"

Leland Stanford, Businessman

"Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent, plus 1.5 per cent National Insurance paid by employees, plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety"

Joe Moore, Celebrity

"It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money"

Damien Hirst, Artist

"I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax"

Pete Seeger, Musician

"Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master"

P. T. Barnum, Entertainer

"Yes, I think India's economy always has been a mixed economy, and by Western standards we are much more of a market economy than a public sector-driven economy"

Manmohan Singh, Statesman

"The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large"

Martin Van Buren, President

"We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his lead in cutting the deficit in half over the next five years"

Ken Mehlman, Politician

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