Money & Finance: Money Quotes

"So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money"

Jim Harrison, Writer

"Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"All currency is neurotic currency"

Norman O. Brown, Philosopher

"I'm terrible with money, absolutely awful. I'm always losing it"

Ron Wood, Musician

"My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you"

Martin Van Buren, President

"Protectionism has to be avoided. Protectionism is not only on goods but also in the area of services. Financial protectionism is also bad and should be avoided"

Manmohan Singh, Statesman

"Look, any amount I make, somebody's going to be mad"

Benny Hinn, Clergyman

"I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt"

Benny Hinn, Clergyman

"Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down"

Jack Kemp, Politician

"It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

"We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise!"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now!"

Lamar Alexander, Politician

"Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"It's crucial to keep in mind that the hundreds of millions of dollars now spent on prescription drug advertisements are ultimately paid for by consumers in the form: a higher drug prices"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"Tax cuts continue to benefit families, seniors, and small business owners, as evidenced by unparalleled economic growth in Nevada and across the country"

Jon Porter, Politician

"Refurbishing I've done in the first three years, and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north"

John Prescott, Politician

"Every bit of money that we can bring from our federal transportation budget in Washington, back here to Stewart Airport will benefit our local economy and our local residents"

Sue Kelly, Politician

"Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes"

Jon Corzine, Politician

"Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money"

Gregory Bateson, Scientist

"I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue"

David Cameron, Politician

"We've probably gotten 500 calls from people saying what the heck is going on with gas, and I gotta say I agree with you. What the heck is going on with gas?"

Janet Napolitano, Politician

"I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise Tax"

Ed Rendell, Politician

"After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies"

Howard Coble, Politician

"I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band"

Evan Dando, Musician

"Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave"

Gilbert Parker, Politician

"I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy"

Ed Pastor, Politician

"I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I'm so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work"

Evan Dando, Musician

"It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit"

Daniel Hannan, Politician

"Number one, I think we should impose a fee or a tax on the transportation of trash per mile"

Ed Rendell, Politician

"The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child"

Daniel Hannan, Politician

"And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over"

Ed Rendell, Politician

"The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life"

Barney Frank, Politician

"Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion"

Barbara Castle, Politician

"Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

"Life started getting good when I started making money"

Balthazar Getty, Actor

"If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies?, they take and prefer Obama economic policies"

Carl Levin, Politician

"One of the members of the group, I can't remember which one, found out we were making $3 - $5,000 a night. We were getting a hundred dollars a week a piece. Everybody got upset about it"

Ben E. King, Musician

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