Money & Finance: Money Quotes

"A trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money"

Daniel Hannan, Politician

"Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract"

Chuck Hagel, Politician

"My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited"

Aldrich Ames, Criminal

"Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand"

Aphra Behn, Dramatist

"President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"In the middle of a recession, no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity, it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can't think of anything I'd want to spend my money on"

Guy Ritchie, Director

"As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever"

Rachel Zoe, Designer

"What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love"

Robert Graves, Novelist

"The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two, and you can forget about royalties"

Mark Millar, Writer

"Korea's early repayment of the full amount of loans from the IMF is a major milestone"

Horst Koehler, Statesman

"I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me"

Bela Lugosi, Actor

"The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet"

William Cobbett, Politician

"I mean, New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes"

John Guare, Playwright

"Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away"

Sextus Propertius, Poet

"The question is not really about a shift to the economic cone where officers are writing about the balance of payments and the need for economic stabilization"

Lawrence Eagleburger, Diplomat

"If the money's right, I'll do a film"

Oliver Reed, Actor

"I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen"

Kato Kaelin, Celebrity

"A sustainable financial system is one that supports sustainable growth over the long term"

Mark Carney, Economist

"The jobs of central banks are not to prevent asset prices from falling; our job is to ensure that the financial system can withstand that fall"

Mark Carney, Economist

"The future of finance is green"

Mark Carney, Economist

"Once climate change becomes a defining issue for financial stability, it may already be too late"

Mark Carney, Economist

"The money is great, no way am I complaining"

David Wells, Athlete

"We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and security for the wage payers and wage savers"

William J. H. Boetcker, Clergyman

"There's a lot we can do to improve Americans' retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of forty percent or more"

Harry Reid, Politician

"We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think there's going to be a good case for that"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era"

Jim Cooper, Politician

"Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts"

Jeb Bush, Politician

"For one thing, one of the wonderful things that we now have is instead of the huge budget surpluses that President Clinton left us with, we now have these huge deficits that we're going to be facing into the future"

Geraldine Ferraro, Politician

"As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance"

Ruben Hinojosa, Politician

"Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"I used practically all the money I had available"

Bernie Ebbers, Businessman

"We have seen a strong increase in oil prices and up to this year we see that the world has been able to absorb that"

Rodrigo Rato, Politician

"I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about"

James Brown, Musician

"Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions passed in 2003 helped Americans dig out of a recession and get back to work"

Marsha Blackburn, Politician

"Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

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