Money & Finance: Money Quotes

"Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it"

George Dennison Prentice, Editor

"For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby"

Margaret Cavendish, Writer

"A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible"

William Baldwin, Actor

"Well, the economic recovery was successful even though the Democrats opposed the reforms every step of the way. And it is clear the Democrats have no clear plan to strengthen our economy, as Republicans do"

Todd Tiahrt, Politician

"It's only money, honey"

Marge Schott, Businessman

"When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government"

Ken Buck, Politician

"Money is not a fund of knowledge"

John Kluge, Businessman

"I have serious concerns about whether it's prudent to give any foreign country substantial leverage over the U.S. economy. Instead of spending $80 billion on important programs here at home, we're sending this money overseas just to pay interest on our debt"

Tim Johnson, Politician

"They tend to lay dormant for a while but often come back, and then the cheques come in!"

Thayer David, Actor

"I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis"

Jim Walsh, Politician

"As to whether the people who were supposedly to put up the money and did put it up or whether it was Arthur's own money is something which I shall never know"

Peter Porter, Soldier

"Texans should not be taxed on our taxes"

Kay Bailey Hutchison, Politician

"What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? And I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance"

Richard Parks Bland, Politician

"Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That's where they want to go"

Bill Gross, Businessman

"It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy"

Bob Graham, Politician

"The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work"

Zach Wamp, Politician

"On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice"

Tom Daschle, Politician

"It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent"

Natalie Merchant, Musician

"One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today"

Alexi Giannoulias, Politician

"If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm for it"

Alexi Giannoulias, Politician

"But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down the street to figure out what would have happened? We avoided - and all economists will tell you that millions of jobs were saved because of the Recovery Act, and we avoided a second Great Depression. That, that is a reality"

Alexi Giannoulias, Politician

"Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another"

Rudolf Hiferding, Economist

"Since, however, the reduced surplus value is to be distributed among them in like manner, the modification of their respective parts in the production of surplus value must find expression in a modification of the prices"

Rudolf Hiferding, Economist

"To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means"

Vaclav Klaus, Statesman

"In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years"

Randy Neugebauer, Politician

"I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive"

Solomon Burke, Musician

"All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality"

Michele Bachmann, Politician

"I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year"

Michael F. Easley, Politician

"The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today"

Frederick Soddy, Scientist

"The important aspect as we look at this budget, and as we look at previous budgets, is the budget system - what I'm trying to get at is changing budgeting itself in Wisconsin"

Scott McCallum, Politician

"I make a lot more off the trades and Image than Marvel"

Robert Kirkman, Writer

"President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works"

Fred Barnes, Journalist

"Well, I think the best form would be to put money directly in the pockets of consumers"

Franklin Raines, Businessman

"There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market"

Joseph Hume, Scientist

"At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be that they would be entirely fed"

Joseph Hume, Scientist

"Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline"

Mike Rogers, Writer

"It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one of the other members of the dwindling club of sovereign AAAs. If this were to materialise and involve a country like France, for example, it could complicate the already fragile efforts by Europe to rescue countries in its periphery"

Mohamed El-Erian, Businessman

"For the next three years, we're going to see different economies work out different problems. For European economies, especially Greece, it would be through default"

Mohamed El-Erian, Businessman

"Who's on the case when it comes to the flat tax?"

Joshua Micah Marshall, Politician

"While there are many influences on gas prices in America, I believe the passage of a national energy bill will help relieve this burden on our country"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

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