Quotes About Policy

The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better than the private sector will spend it.

The Fed has the ability to put money out, it's got the ability to take money back in, and if they don't do that, we will have hyperinflation worse than we had in 1980 and 1981.

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed.

A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

Microeconomics is about money you don't have, and macroeconomics is about money the government is out of.

Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!

Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that's really what occurs.

Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles.

There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.

At some point, the dollar has to give. You can't just keep printing money, and monetizing debt, and buying bonds, without the dollar imploding.

The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.

Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for the payment of debts

Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.

I personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid more than 13 percent, given what I know about the kind of investments he made money from.

All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.

The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of the citizen.

Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

The history of paper money is an account of abuse, mismanagement, and financial disaster.

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.