Money & Finance: Money Quotes

"This independent report clearly indicates that while we may differ among ourselves in government about what to spend money on, we have one of the most reliable and non-political processes for agreeing on how much money there is. We don't play games with the numbers"

Ruth Ann Minner, Politician

"It's not just a hurricane. It's the demand for gas in China... We're paying $3 a gallon, and the oil companies are making historic profits every quarter"

Ron Klein, Writer

"I don't know if people understand that there are different ways to raise money for great causes"

Rick Dees, Entertainer

"The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see"

Matthew Continetti, Journalist

"It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father"

Vaughn Monroe, Musician

"Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government"

Robert Toombs, Politician

"Last year, I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else"

Robert Kirkman, Writer

"We're failing when it comes to controlling spending"

Lindsey Graham, Politician

"When you look at Regis, he really and truly does feel for those people, and I feel like I've done it too. You're giving away somebody else's money, so what do you care? It's not your money"

Wink Martindale, Entertainer

"We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them"

Frank James, Celebrity

"I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could"

Kay Bailey Hutchison, Politician

"And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we had to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress"

Leonard Woodcock, Activist

"I think that, you know, this is a different year than most years. We've got to tell the American people that we have to live with less. We have a $13.5 trillion debt. And the only way to do that is an honest campaign with honest people"

Ken Buck, Politician

"If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase"

Pat Toomey, Politician

"I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to talk about it in interviews. Why not? That's what everybody thinks about"

Sean Astin, Actor

"It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank"

John George Nicolay, Writer

"Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning"

George Reisman, Economist

"That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody"

Bud Abbott, Actor

"A comprehensive national energy policy is critical to our nation's economy and our national security. Energy expenditures account for about 7% percent of our total economy and influence pricing in the much of the rest of the economy"

Heather Wilson, Politician

"Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better"

Carlos Alazraqui, Actor

"I don't owe one man one cent anywhere"

Roy Acuff, Musician

"We're committed to working with Congress to doing what the president said he was always going to do, which is cut the deficit in half over the - over his first term"

Christina Romer, Economist

"If you look at the studies coming out of the Congressional Budget Office, the number one thing that's going to blow a hole in the deficit as we go forward 20, 30 years is government spending on healthcare"

Christina Romer, Economist

"I liked money more than going to school"

Norton Simon, Businessman

"We will not reform the yuan until the time is right, even if there is external pressure"

Wu Yi, Politician

"The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money if he were spending the money. He doesn't have the authority to spend the money. He doesn't spend $1 of the money"

Michael Enzi, Politician

"Look, the, the - this country has not lived within its means for a very long time, and, and the truth is we're going to have to take our medicine"

Alexi Giannoulias, Politician

"Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition"

Rudolf Hiferding, Economist

"But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance, but depends upon objective conditions, upon the amount of socially necessary labor time contained in the coat and in the linen respectively"

Rudolf Hiferding, Economist

"Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense"

Jeff Bingaman, Politician

"I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime"

Dennis Kozlowski, Criminal

"I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do"

Penelope Spheeris, Director

"Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap"

Richard J. Codey, Politician

"Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand"

Olivier Sarkozy, Businessman

"Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means"

Van Wyck Brooks, Critic

"I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff"

Matthew Broderick, Actor

"Actually, I have been very supportive of a very robust stimulus package from day one. I think this economy has to have a major stimulus initiative because the only group with liquidity is the federal government"

Judd Gregg, Politician

"Right now we think that rates will stay low, that you'll be able to get a mortgage below seven percent and that's kicked off a refinance boom that's going to put more money in the pockets of consumers"

Franklin Raines, Businessman

"What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it"

Marc Faber, Businessman

"At the time, I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time"

Mark Edwards, Celebrity

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