Money & Finance: Money Quotes

"The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution"

Scott Cook, Businessman

"This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy"

Chaka Fattah, Politician

"There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade"

Chaka Fattah, Politician

"Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest"

Frank Knight, Economist

"Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now, and if I work again before August, I must, of course, repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now, if you kindly will"

Basil Rathbone, Actor

"There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government"

William Vickrey, Educator

"The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression"

William Vickrey, Educator

"If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain"

William Vickrey, Educator

"It's OK, I guess, if you really need the money, but luckily, I'm not in that position"

Shirley Booth, Actress

"I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money"

Phil Gramm, Politician

"The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically"

Sidney Blumenthal, Journalist

"It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers"

Sidney Blumenthal, Journalist

"To the extent that the United States has, I don't like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don't think that's based on to any significant degree on the fact that countries use the dollar as their major reserve"

Robert C. Solomon, Educator

"The major material advantage, financial advantage, from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure"

Robert C. Solomon, Educator

"If a currency is to become a growing, an increasing reserve currency, there has to be not only a demand for it, there has to be a supply of it"

Robert C. Solomon, Educator

"Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything"

Santiago Durango, Musician

"I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning 10 pounds a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15"

Robert Pattinson, Actor

"The box got bigger, the outside, the buildings. And all that we were doing. I had to raise about $1 million every two days just to stay alive"

Jim Bakker, Celebrity

"Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products"

Scott Cook, Businessman

"Bush has never sent over a balanced budget"

Chaka Fattah, Politician

"If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted"

Elizabeth Warren, Public Servant

"I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests"

Elizabeth Warren, Public Servant

"Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple"

Scott Cook, Businessman

"Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a decision"

Scott Cook, Businessman

"I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes"

Christine O'Donnell, Politician

"Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration"

Valerie Jarrett, Lawyer

"You have two pages, that's the whole credit card agreement. The terms are clear and flat and easy to see so anyone can read them. So you could lay four credit cards in front of you and say, 'Oh, that's the one that has the highest rate, that's the one that has the really scary provision that could hurt me.'"

Elizabeth Warren, Public Servant

"Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having"

Elizabeth Arden, Businessman

"The staff at the Institute will present an analysis on how asset price fluctuations and subsequent structural adjustments influence sustained economic growth, based on Japan's experience since the second half of the 1980s"

Toshihiko Fukui, Public Servant

"I can pay my rent now. I guess I could always do that, but now I can get an apartment with heat"

Kevin Eubanks, Musician

"The question now is, does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it out of the New York people, I don't think he's going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where's the money going to come from for Barack Obama?"

Juan Williams, Journalist

"The outlook for the Federal budget is bleak"

Doug Elmendorf, Economist

"If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently"

Placido Domingo, Musician

"Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?"

Russ Carnahan, Politician

"Americans are also feeling the effects of soaring energy prices at the gas pump. The double burden of these added expenses will be far too much for many families"

Russ Carnahan, Politician

"The United States, as usual, has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account, and other current accounts, current account items"

Robert C. Solomon, Educator

"The reserve currency role seems to add prestige to an area, and some people in Europe have talked about the desirability of the Euro becoming an international reserve currency"

Robert C. Solomon, Educator

"But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money"

Little Richard, Musician

Phyllis George, Journalist

"Well, the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently"

James Wolfensohn, Businessman

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