Money & Finance: Money Quotes

"In fact, I think - our view of this is that while the agreement, the compromise, did not achieve the kind of super-sized deficit reduction that we sought, it did end the uncertainty around the perception, the possibility that the United States might default on its obligations for its first time. That was a good thing"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

"In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax"

Eric Cantor, Politician

"Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

"Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure"

John Buchanan Robinson, Politician

"Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records"

Jim Ramstad, Politician

"Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!"

John Buchanan Robinson, Politician

"Modern money is almost altogether credit money"

John Buchanan Robinson, Politician

"In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community"

John Buchanan Robinson, Politician

"Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows"

John Buchanan Robinson, Politician

"The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending"

John Ensign, Politician

"We've outpaced Japan and Europe in creating new jobs, but there's major competition from India and China. It's not enough to make income tax cuts permanent"

Ernest Istook, Politician

"Now, some are saying, maybe $1.6 trillion in is not enough; maybe we should look at $2 trillion"

Dennis Moore, Politician

"The other are the strategic, so-called strategic stocks that the United States and the other Western industrial countries have, which could put in as much as four million barrels a day of oil into the market pretty quickly"

Daniel Yergin, Author

"I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example"

Jon Huntsman, Jr., Politician

"I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy"

John Boehner, Politician

"Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?"

Catherine Zeta-Jones, Actress

"We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates"

Eric Cantor, Politician

"If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation"

John Buchanan Robinson, Politician

"In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest"

John Buchanan Robinson, Politician

"The budget is tight, and that is exactly where we want it to be and where we need it to be"

Jim Nussle, Politician

"The American people elected us here to cut spending so we can create an environment for jobs in America. The House has acted. We have demonstrated that we want to see spending, discretionary spending, brought down to levels of 2008. We've seen no counteraction. We have seen no position that has been expressed by the other side at all!"

Eric Cantor, Politician

"I don't want the federal government to rush in and bail the out right away"

Dennis Moore, Politician

"Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to come, my Republican colleagues refused to include it in today's legislation, and America's middle class will surely suffer that choice greatly"

Ellen Tauscher, Politician

"Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth"

Bob Schaffer, Politician

"What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery"

Eric Cantor, Politician

"Now, the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct, and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt!"

Eric Cantor, Politician

"I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.'"

Eric Cantor, Politician

"A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that, when the cost-of-living rises appreciably, wages have shortly been adjusted upward, also"

Charles E. Wilson, Businessman

"Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt"

Bill Shuster, Politician

"I'll always be poor in my mind"

Chet Atkins, Musician

"I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues"

Alex Morrison, Soldier

"We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts"

Alan Keyes, Politician

"The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand, one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands"

Robert Grosseteste, Statesman

"The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit"

Robert Grosseteste, Statesman

"Well, there's no doubt about the fact that, that higher energy prices lead to greater conservation, greater energy efficiency, and they also, of course, play a useful role on the supply side"

John W. Snow, Economist

"Well, I think the global economy is in the position for continuing good growth, with inflation well in check"

John W. Snow, Economist

"Well, I make a practice of not commenting on the role of the relative exchange value of our currency"

John W. Snow, Economist

"We're focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important"

John W. Snow, Economist

"If you aren't rich, you should always look useful"

Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Writer

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