Money & Finance: Money Quotes

"I never would have believed as a candidate for the U.S. Senate that the U.S. government could buy GM without a hearing, with no vote, yes or no. There are billions and billions of dollars at stake here"

Mike Johanns, Politician

"While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund into more than one account"

Jim Cooper, Politician

"It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years"

Jim Cooper, Politician

"Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs"

Thomas Carper, Economist

"The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt"

Ruben Hinojosa, Politician

"In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means"

Jackie Cooper, Actor

"That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy"

Tim Bishop, Politician

"The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending, borrowing, and taxing"

Julie Bishop, Politician

"We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"Today, it's money. There's no question about that. Unless you endorse a grill that cooks hamburgers and steaks, where else can you make the kind of money that you can make in the ring if you're good?"

Dick Schaap, Journalist

"I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too"

Jason Mewes, Actor

"We have the euro as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe"

Ibrahim Rugova, Statesman

"Congress has changed the Social Security system over time, and over 20 times in the past Congress has raised taxes on Social Security in payroll taxes into the system"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market"

Gary Miller, Politician

"California has set up regional collection offices around the world, staffed by California employees, specifically for out of state California businesses to collect the money and bring it back to California"

Craig Benson, Politician

"Eastern Washington families and businesses should be able to deduct every penny of state and local sales tax they pay throughout the year from their federal tax bill, especially when people in most states are deducting their state income taxes"

Cathy McMorris, Politician

"Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful"

Bill Pascrell, Politician

"I would like to see this group in this Congress be starting the process to get ourselves on long term fiscal strong footing"

Ben Quayle, Politician

"And that's the one thing that people do not understand is that we have very low interest rates and if those go back to historical levels or even go back to scary thoughts that they're back in the late '70s, early '80s, then that's going to really be hard to actually pay off those debts. It's going to be a - it's going to be a very big problem"

Ben Quayle, Politician

"A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his"

Bobby Darin, Musician

"Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough"

Martin Amis, Author

"Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy"

Martin Amis, Author

"The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece"

Gregg Allman, Musician

"The administration's reckless plan doesn't do one thing to ensure the long term security of social security, rather it undermines our economy. We need a budget and a fiscal policy that reflects the values and interests of America and restores fiscal discipline"

Debbie Stabenow, Politician

"I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for the American consumer who is getting clobbered by these gasoline and oil prices"

Ron Wyden, Politician

"We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to evolve to a more flexible exchange rate system"

Rodrigo Rato, Politician

"So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy"

Rodrigo Rato, Politician

"And then you might decide that the country can just spend maybe years or decades to regain that credit, or maybe give that county the support, the financial support that the market is not willing not do"

Rodrigo Rato, Politician

"The administration in my view is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy"

Paul Sarbanes, Politician

"What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes"

Geoff Davis, Politician

"The economy is too weak right now. We need to jump-start it. The American Jobs Act will provide that jump-start, to help us into next year and the year after that"

David Plouffe, Public Servant

"The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power"

Jerry Rubin, Activist

"Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and in the infrastructure of the financial system"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative"

Candice S. Miller, Politician

"The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business"

Julie Walters, Actress

"Money is a way of creating scarcity"

Peter Coyote, Actor

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