Money & Finance: Money Quotes

"I also know how to ask people for money, and I have no shame about doing that"

Roma Downey, Actress

"Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year"

Simon Cowell, Entertainer

"Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue, and do not have a state income tax"

William L. Jenkins, Politician

"We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened"

Pete du Pont, Politician

"It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth"

Josiah Warren, Inventor

"You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget"

Tom DeLay, Politician

"That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems"

Paul Hawken, Environmentalist

"The budget enforcement rules of the 1990s were an important part of getting the budget back into balance. It was done on a bipartisan basis. Those pay-as-you-go rules were tested and they worked. We are now in a one-party system, and we have thrown them out"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly across all income brackets"

Charles Vest, Educator

"Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character"

Gary Ryan Blair, Writer

"I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"Even the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security trustees appointed by the president say that Social Security is financially sound, without any changes for the next 40 to 50 years"

James Roosevelt, Politician

"Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?"

Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist

"At that time, I was making the largest salary known on television, and I didn't want to see it die, because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything"

Larry Hagman, Actor

"Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving"

Dan Millman, Author

"The reality is that zero defects in products, plus zero pollution, plus zero risk on the job, is equivalent to maximum growth of government, plus zero economic growth, plus runaway inflation"

Dixie Lee Ray, Politician

"There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about 35 million dollars a year that used to be paid for by the federal government"

Charles Vest, Educator

"The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation where people will hold the American economy hostage in order to achieve a specific agenda - at least not until 2013. So we think that is incredibly important as a matter of economic good"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

"When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit"

John Buchanan Robinson, Politician

"In order to spur economic growth, we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans' tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government"

Kenneth Blackwell, Politician

"Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption"

Sherwood Boehlert, Politician

"Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue"

Sherwood Boehlert, Politician

"As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive"

Jim Ramstad, Politician

"Of course, we have to address the deficit if we win"

Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Politician

"We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats"

Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Politician

"People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets"

Ed Markey, Politician

"The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building, I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada"

Ernst Zundel, Activist

"I would vote to increase the debt limit if there was a corresponding level of cuts. And if there was some serious talk about a balanced budget amendment, which we as governors always had to deal with"

Jon Huntsman, Jr., Politician

"Why don't we stop the stimulus spending? There's still about $400 billion or $500 billion of the stimulus plan that has not been spent. Why don't we stop it? It's not working!"

John Boehner, Politician

"My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill"

Geoffrey Rush, Actor

"I got me a hit record, and I ain't never made a cent from it"

Patsy Cline, Musician

"The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up"

Denis Norden, Writer

"As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf of Mexico was damaged or destroyed, causing gas prices to soar"

Rick Renzi, Politician

"It's all about the fungibility and money. If Planned Parenthood accesses hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money and they use that for other purposes, then they can use other dollars to fund abortion"

Eric Cantor, Politician

"It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending"

Eric Cantor, Politician

"I think we ought to all take a step back and remember where we were 24, 48 hours ago, a week ago, two weeks ago - the prospect that was hanging out there that America would not honor its obligations for the first time in its history, and the impact that would have on our economy and the global economy"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

"We believe that it is very important that we have hopefully averted what would have been the most substantial headwind of all, which is a default for the first time in our history, and that that will contribute to a more positive environment that we hope will allow for greater growth and job creation"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

"Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth"

John Mellencamp, Musician

"The simple fact of the matter is, as I know everyone in this room knows, that the recession that this country faced when this President took office was the worst since the Great Depression"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

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