Money & Finance: Money Quotes

"Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues"

Chuck Zito, Celebrity

"Things are pretty good in Canada. We weathered the recession fairly well. And, of course, we're up here up living here, we're watching American news and we're constantly saying, wow, it's not as bad as it is in the United States"

Rick Mercer, Comedian

"Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other"

Nassau William Senior, Economist

"But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT"

James Meade, Economist

"The first one was quite cheap, but that was expensive for us. For my folks to buy on the Never Never. It was quite, you know, a rare object to have and I gained quite a lot of status by having this"

Eric Clapton, Musician

"I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family"

Tom Felton, Actor

"We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only follow your dreams if you can afford it"

Trevor Noah, Comedian

"Money does not make you look expensive, it's taste"

Zendaya, Actress

"Access to capital is a privilege, not a right"

Larry Fink, Businessman

"When you get money you're always a target because there's always somebody who needs money out there"

Lloyd Banks, Musician

"A low budget is uncomfortable"

Lukas Haas, Actor

"We need to have a strong economy that can create employment opportunities and that can also produce the revenue that we need to defend our country at home and abroad"

Robert Menendez, Politician

"Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around"

Mitchell Baker, Lawyer

"The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure"

William Vickrey, Educator

"Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level"

William Vickrey, Educator

"There are thousands and thousands of free programs available for people of any income level"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"I believe entertainers should know what's going on and do their own banking"

Stephanie Mills, Musician

"As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices, with even greater impact if cold temperatures persist into the spring"

Russ Carnahan, Politician

"We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair"

Xavier Becerra, Politician

"Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced"

Xavier Becerra, Politician

"For every $5 that Boston's economy sends up to Beacon Hill, the state gives only $1 back to us"

Thomas Menino, Politician

"Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies"

Fred W. Friendly, Producer

"Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance"

Placido Domingo, Musician

"We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town"

Richard Neal, Politician

"With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures"

Ernst Engel, Economist

"And there was no money in Chicago for a band"

Santiago Durango, Musician

"The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"For the last 4 years, our Federal Government has produced the four biggest deficits in history, and the estimated 2006 deficit of $423 billion is projected to be the largest of all"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"When I was younger, I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee"

Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer

"We have major fiscal problems on our hand"

Chaka Fattah, Politician

"It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%"

Sidney Blumenthal, Journalist

"At the same time, Clinton was doing a lot things right, like the economy"

Sidney Blumenthal, Journalist

"We should begin to remind people they are always after your money, and if you are on something around average earnings, you really don't have that spare capacity to pay for all these follies that Labour keep spending their money on"

John Redwood, Politician

"In this nation, leadership is dollars"

Norman Lear, Producer

"There are thousands of grant programs and every program has different requirements and deadlines"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer"

Frank Lautenberg, Politician

"Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you"

Stephanie Mills, Musician

"There is a European Central Bank, of course, established, and it has the structure similar to the Federal Reserve system, not precisely the same, but similar"

Robert C. Solomon, Educator

"There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all"

Robert C. Solomon, Educator

"If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase"

Matt Blunt, Politician

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