Money & Finance: Money Quotes

"That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself"

Paul Sarbanes, Politician

"God forbid if David Crosby gets sick again and I can't tour anymore, or something happens where I can't get around, what am I going to live on? I'm going to be living on mechanicals. So I don't want to hear it"

Stephen Stills, Musician

"Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights"

Suze Orman, Author

"Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing"

Bruce Dern, Actor

"It's a little weird exchanging pictures for money. You know what I mean. It makes me a little uncomfortable"

Noah Hathaway, Actor

"This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"If you have debt, I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too"

Suze Orman, Author

"The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities, and does little to put our nation's fiscal house in order"

Jim Jeffords, Politician

"We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education"

Suze Orman, Author

"The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now they should do it to help the consumer"

Ron Wyden, Politician

"To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error"

Rodrigo Rato, Politician

"I think it would take a real stretch to think that I caused the problems with the economy"

Harry Reid, Politician

"The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor"

James Howell, Writer

"Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C"

Geoff Davis, Politician

"If you dispute with me, you will only quarrel with your bread and butter"

Francis Bond Head, Statesman

"But the debt limit obviously is something that needs to and will be passed. That is not inconsistent with a process and a belief that we have to get significant deficit reduction"

David Plouffe, Public Servant

"We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates, as a consequence of the American economy"

Rodrigo Rato, Politician

"There is not an alternative to the US as the engine for growth"

Rodrigo Rato, Politician

"Most cases, I would say, in a huge amount of cases, countries that have worked with us and have used our financial facilities have come out quick... more quickly and in a better shape from a crisis than would have come out otherwise"

Rodrigo Rato, Politician

"So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with"

Ruben Blades, Musician

"I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system"

Paul Sarbanes, Politician

"Financial crises require governments"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?"

Malcolm Wallop, Politician

"We ask for way too much stuff - way too much stuff. You got a job making $100 a year and bought a house for $3 million. Talking about, 'I don't know what happened with the payment'"

Sinbad, Comedian

"As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"We have one of the highest interest rates in the world, and we owe more money per capita than any other country. All we need is a nail hole in the bottom of the boat and we're sunk"

Pauline Hanson, Politician

"When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future, because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"Hiding spending does not reduce spending"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It's a core value - it's common sense - it's important to keeping and growing jobs - and it's mainstream!"

Tim Pawlenty, Politician

"The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction"

Laurent Fabius, Statesman

"There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of Homeland Security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need"

Shelley Berkley, Politician

"I've been in a situation where I was after the money"

Morris Chestnut, Actor

"This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

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