Money & Finance: Money Quotes

"The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent as a prelude to a long-term or permanent extension, and that would hurt economic recovery as well by undermining confidence that we're prepared to make a commitment today to bring down our future deficits"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"It is very important for people to understand that the United States of America and no country around the world can devalue its way to prosperity, to be competitive. It is not a viable, feasible strategy, and we will not engage in it"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money"

Juliana Hatfield, Musician

"Shopkeepers are not bankers"

Laurent Fabius, Statesman

"These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt"

Ahmed Ben Bella, Politician

"We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews"

Ira Glass, Journalist

"The rest of the world needs the US economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain at the center of global economic activity with financial and trade ties to every region of the globe"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"Whenever I can afford to do something, I do it"

Thurston Moore, Musician

"All my money was made doing the dates and selling products when I was out there on the road"

Mickey Gilley, Musician

"This majority is working for America, and one of those ways is we have tremendously low unemployment. This economy has created millions of new jobs, and we are expecting growth this first quarter of somewhere higher than 4 percent"

Marsha Blackburn, Politician

"First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path"

Jim Cooper, Politician

"I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries"

Romain Rolland, Novelist

"A person's credit report is one of the most important tools consumers can use to maintain their financial security and credit rating, but for so long many did not know how to obtain one, or what to do with the information it provided"

Ruben Hinojosa, Politician

"This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go bankrupt within ten years, we have a debt that is looming so high that in the last year of President Obama's budget just the interest payments on our debt is $916 billion dollars"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"Look, the president is elected to lead and to face the country's biggest challenges. The country's biggest challenge domestically speaking, no doubt about it, is a debt crisis, and I'm really hoping that he is going to give us a budget that tackles this debt crisis"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"Foreign trade clearly has been a reason why inflation has been low"

Tim Bishop, Politician

"So, I think even in Saudi Arabia there is movement. And we have to remember that over the years they've stabilized the oil price and that is tremendously important for the economies of the world. I think we have no choice but to work with the government of Saudi Arabia"

Frank Carlucci, Politician

"Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others"

Tim Bishop, Politician

"Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems"

Roy Barnes, Politician

"If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy"

Jim Cooper, Politician

"Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money"

Gerald Brenan, Writer

"I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that"

Naomi Campbell, Model

"If you buy an expensive thing and you never use it, I don't think there's a point to it"

Tom Selleck, Actor

"As a matter of fact, if you do not take into account, as Congressman Ross just stated, the Social Security surplus, our fiscal deficit, ladies and gentlemen, is over $700 billion today"

Jim Costa, Politician

"High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of us take an active role in providing financial and economic education during all stages of one's life"

Ruben Hinojosa, Politician

"America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy"

Gordon Brown, Politician

"If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket"

Mickey Gilley, Musician

"This Department of Treasury, run by this administration, using the same tried and true accounting methods that every business in America uses, cast new light on the fiscal severity that our Nation is facing, what some would call a mess"

Jim Costa, Politician

"It's the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too, and the ballplayers make a lot more money now"

Mickey Gilley, Musician

"I had seventeen No. 1 songs, and I didn't see anything like that kind of money"

Mickey Gilley, Musician

"If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs, than we would be at full employment already"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course, concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible"

Bryn Terfel, Musician

"Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars"

Steve Israel, Politician

"I call on the Australian Government to set out the conditions upon which they will provide a taxpayer funded backing for wholesale term funding for Australian deposit taking institutions. I call on the Government it make clear the conditions upon which taxpayer funds will be used in this way"

Julie Bishop, Politician

"And as you point out, for American families who struggle every day to figure out how do they pay, we talk about gasoline prices. That throws budgets into a real problem when you have budgeted really tight!"

Allyson Schwartz, Politician

"The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means"

Julie Bishop, Politician

"Well, the problem of the federal government is that they print money and go in debt. That's their national policy, Democrats and Republicans, it doesn't matter. And this is where I differ"

Richard M. Daley, Politician

"The financial report makes it very clear that if we got into honest budgeting today, that in fact we would find ourselves with a much larger deficit than we have today"

Jim Costa, Politician

"In coming to the Congress as a new Member and becoming a fellow Blue Dog, we have had an opportunity to share and really spend a great deal of time in examining the challenges that our Nation finds itself in in getting its fiscal house in order"

Jim Costa, Politician

"But you've got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn't matter as much when you're young, but even so. I always like to bloody eat well and be warm. Have a drink when I want it!"

Jeffrey Bernard, Journalist

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