Money & Finance: Money Quotes

"I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve"

Xavier Cugat, Musician

"Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks' pockets"

Max Baucus, Politician

"What I wanted to do was see if we couldn't balance the budget"

Wilbur Mills, Politician

"Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout"

Terry Savage, Writer

"This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the success that I've had in it, and the other is money"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face"

Liza Minelli, Entertainer

"Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy"

Eddie Barclay, Musician

"Our tree is actually a tree of the short-term interest rate. The average direction in which the short-term interest rate moves depends on the level of the rate. When the rate is very high, that direction is downward; when the rate is very low, it is upward"

John C. Hull, Professor

"Over half a billion dollars a day is being spent by FEMA"

Thad Cochran, Politician

"Who owns the assets of our Nation? Increasingly, foreign interests own our assets, and we owe them money. No wonder people think our country is headed in the wrong direction. It is"

Marcy Kaptur, Politician

"At the end of 1964, wholesale prices had been relatively stable for some years"

Leonard Woodcock, Activist

"Tax breaks can serve a vital role in keeping and bringing jobs to our state; however, without accountability, they are little more than loopholes at taxpayers' expense"

Jeanne Kohl-Welles, Politician

"I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money"

Matthew Modine, Actor

"In providing this $5,000 tax credit for those purchasing rural homes, we're offering an important incentive to encourage people to live in smaller communities - and perhaps even stay in a community they might be considering leaving"

John M. McHugh, Politician

"Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work"

Zach Wamp, Politician

"We invite, then, the world to come with its silver and make the exchange"

Richard Parks Bland, Politician

"If you increase taxes now on - at any level, it's going to make it harder to create jobs, And we've lost 2 1/2 million jobs since the stimulus package passed. We're at 9.6 unemployment. So I don't think we tax too little, I think we spend too much"

Lindsey Graham, Politician

"The object of the law of value is to elucidate the actual exchange relations of commodities"

Rudolf Hiferding, Economist

"For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes"

Bob Beauprez, Politician

"There is nothing left now for us but to get ever deeper and deeper into debt to the banking system in order to provide the increasing amounts of money the nation requires for its expansion and growth"

Frederick Soddy, Scientist

"Well, we're just now seeing the reductions in mortgage rates. The mortgage rates are based on the ten-year rate and the Fed controls the overnight or the shorter rates"

Franklin Raines, Businessman

"And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise"

Franklin Raines, Businessman

"In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"Trust me, I'm going to find out where the money has gone and how it has been spent, and see if we can't get it down there quicker to let that rebuilding start"

Lynn Westmoreland, Politician

"Once the housing market begins to recover, I would phase out the mortgage tax deduction"

Joshua A. Tucker, Educator

"Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion"

John Spratt, Politician

"Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget"

John Spratt, Politician

"Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T"

Louie Gohmert, Politician

"Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you've done with the trillion you've got"

Les Aspin, Politician

"There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive"

Lara St. John, Musician

"So we want to change the tax system. We want it to be fair, and we want to see some tax relief because people do three things when they get a little extra money in their pocket: They save it or they spend it or they invest it"

Todd Tiahrt, Politician

"When it costs $50 to fill up our gas tanks, it impacts every aspect of our daily lives and the community"

Tim Murphy, Politician

"But if I had to do it, handle money, then I think I could be responsible, yes"

Soundarya, Actress

"We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves"

Joe Miller, Politician

"The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding"

Anatoly Chubais, Politician

"Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to"

Bill Janklow, Politician

"Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon, I do wish I had more money"

John Fahey, Musician

"Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad"

Paul A. Volcker, Economist

"Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind"

Mike Todd, Producer

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