Money & Finance: Money Quotes

Joan Blades, Businessman

"It's 85 million dollars and they got to be really careful because they are going to need me"

Terry Gilliam, Director

"It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities"

Rudolf Hiferding, Economist

"Money is sensual"

Jerry Stiller, Comedian

"In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side"

Ezra Cornell, Businessman

"In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties"

Henry Charles Carey, Economist

"Now is not the time to compromise on the economy. Instead, we should be doing everything in our power to support long-term economic growth. Permanent repeal of the death tax will mean more high-quality, high-paying jobs for Americans"

Todd Tiahrt, Politician

"I don't think the AAA is an end in itself; we will maintain prudent financial management with or without the AAA"

Jay Weatherill, Politician

"We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all"

William Randolph Hearst, Publisher

"It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is"

Richard Parks Bland, Politician

"My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building"

Todd Tiahrt, Politician

"To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"Spending on programs such as national defense and funding the operating budgets of all federal agencies represent only 39 percent of our yearly budget, an all-time low"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"Last year, New York got $200 million. This year, we're going to give them $124 million under this particular program. But last year was an artificially elevated number to make up from the very low grant the year before"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent!"

Steve Chabot, Politician

"With gas prices nationally, and especially in our area, increasingly on the rise, it is more crucial then ever that we take steps to diversify our energy sources and reduce our dependency on foreign oil"

Mary Bono, Politician

"I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it"

Roland Gift, Actor

"I don't think I can answer questions about the trust fund"

Louise Woodward, Celebrity

"I am neither a free-trade man, willing to collect all the money we have to raise by direct tax upon the people, nor am I willing to lay a tax simply for protection when the Government does not need the money"

Joseph E. Brown, Politician

"When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do"

Paul A. Volcker, Economist

"Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession"

Mitch McConnell, Politician

"I strongly support tax relief for the middle class"

Rick Larsen, Politician

"Making the tax cuts permanent will continue to grow the economy, create jobs, and put more money in the pockets of the hard-working families of Pennsylvania"

Tim Murphy, Politician

"In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck"

Tim Cahill, Athlete

"That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous"

George Gissing, Novelist

"Well, you know, we've got a lot of stimulus in the economy already from the tax cut, from the lowered interest rates, and also from the refinancing of mortgages"

Franklin Raines, Businessman

"Well, I think as long as people are talking about stimulus, I think the Fed will be thinking about cutting rates because monetary policy is the better way to go because you can turn it on and turn it off"

Franklin Raines, Businessman

"And so, we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate, and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got"

Franklin Raines, Businessman

"I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well"

Wayne Allard, Politician

"I'm a firm believer in putting your money where your mouth is"

Teri Hatcher, Actress

"At my lowest, I was making nothing, of course"

Teri Hatcher, Actress

"The Italian economy is certainly the weakest of the big European countries"

Romano Prodi, Statesman

"The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth"

Todd Tiahrt, Politician

"Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed"

John C. Hull, Professor

"The entitlement state has driven us into insolvency"

Joe Miller, Politician

"The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit"

Tim Murphy, Politician

"A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region"

Greg Walden, Politician

"A Congressional Budget Office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and 80 percent after that"

Grace Napolitano, Politician

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