Money & Finance: Money Quotes

"A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty"

Lane Evans, Politician

"The President's political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn"

Robert Teeter, Politician

"However, it may occur that we will find ourselves using a variety of fuel sources to give us the energy we need support our lifestyles and boost our economy"

Virgil Goode, Politician

"Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods"

Thomas Menino, Politician

"Many scammers are only using personal checks for payment because they can take the money and run"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues"

William Vickrey, Educator

"It's insane to try to balance the budget"

William Vickrey, Educator

"Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief"

William Vickrey, Educator

"The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money"

Steve Brown, Musician

"Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits"

Russ Carnahan, Politician

"This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it"

Josiah Warren, Inventor

"With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing"

Toshihiko Fukui, Public Servant

"Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others"

Leif Garrett, Musician

"It's never been about making money"

Rob Zombie, Musician

"Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money"

John Dos Passos, Novelist

"Well, first of all, let's go right to it. We're going to balance the budget. We should live within our own means, and we should read the bills and work with the American people"

Jeff Sessions, Politician

"These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion"

Gale Norton, Public Servant

"The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world"

Robert C. Solomon, Educator

"I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"I will cut all state taxes by at least one third"

Sonny Landham, Actor

"My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it"

Jonathan Coe, Novelist

"The Fed has the ability to put money out, it's got the ability to take money back in, and if they don't do that, we will have hyperinflation worse than we had in 1980 and 1981"

Chuck Grassley, Politician

"Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts"

Chuck Grassley, Politician

"Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful!"

Charles Vest, Educator

"They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us"

Rebecca H. Davis, Writer

"Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics"

Robert Teeter, Politician

"All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security"

Virgil Goode, Politician

"The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women"

Marguerite Young, Author

"When you have too much month for you paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abundance all around you, and focus on the abundance, and not your lack, and as night follows day, abundance will come to you"

Sydney Madwed, Businessman

"Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump, the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies"

Major R. Owens, Politician

"The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless"

Josiah Warren, Inventor

"My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals"

James Weldon Johnson, Poet

"And yet, if we don't, first and foremost, act responsibly with the national tax dollars that we have, we can't properly address those regional priorities that we would like to"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"I'm always worried about my money for some reason"

Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Actor

"It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of Alternative Minimum Tax"

Richard Neal, Politician

"But what is striking about this, in a town that often talks about tax cuts, we could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code"

Richard Neal, Politician

"You know, I'm not gonna take my money with me to heaven or hell, wherever I'm going. So I want to do something good with it even though my means are very limited. I'm no millionaire!"

Gunther Schuller, Composer

Page 31 of 45