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Quotes About Treasury

The more cash that builds up in the treasury, the greater the pressure to piss it away.
~ Peter Lynch
The Fed is the major U.S. firefighter. It's not the Treasury. It's not the Congress. We certainly saw that vividly in 2008.
~ Roger Altman
An early reviewer of Cantos XXXI–XLI in the New York Nation amused himself with the conceit of Mr Pound taking correspondence courses in such subjects as 'History of the U.S. Treasury from the Revolution to the Civil War (from the Original Documents)' and making notes diligently on small pieces of paper which a gust of wind scattered over the hills about Rapallo, and which he then picked up and sent to the printer as he found them.
~ A. David Moody
In many cases, the Treasury will get preferred or convertible preferred stock for the money it gives to banks. These shares typically don't have voting rights, possibly to give more of a hands-off appearance to the government.
~ Jerry A. Webman
Good strong banks are essential for every family and for every business in the country and extraordinary times call for the bold and far-reaching solutions that the Treasury has announced today.
~ James Gordon Brown
Banking and Prosperity in the Thirteenth Occupation or even A Child's Treasury of Economics or The Young Person's Illustrated Omnibus of Fiscal Prudence.
~ Alastair Reynolds
The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury.
~ Ray Stannard Baker
Hank Paulson, the happy capitalist warrior who spent his life pursuing and defending free markets, is now the biggest interventionist Treasury secretary we've had since the Great Depression.
~ Charles Duhigg
The First Lord's early plans met obstruction from the Treasury, particularly when he had to come out in the open and ask for an Air Department at the Admiralty. Up to then he had relied, as he has told us, on 'various shifts and devices'. In all, he was rebuffed three times before he could get Treasury sanction for this modest but far-sighted proposal.
~ Randolph S. Churchill
I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.
~ Bob Hope
That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.
~ Will Rogers
All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.
~ Prince Philip
Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out
~ Will Rogers
Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.
~ Will Rogers
The new Nawab first quickly dispersed the mutinous sepoys of Murshidabad by paying them from his own treasury.
~ William Dalrymple
The treasury is based upon mining, the army upon the treasury; he who has army and treasury may conquer the whole wide earth.
~ David Graeber
what is the status of all this money continually being funneled into the U.S. treasury? Are these loans? Or is it tribute?
~ David Graeber
To the extent that these Treasury IOUs are being built into the world's monetary base they will not have to be repaid, but are to be rolled over indefinitely. This feature is the essence of America's free financial ride, a tax imposed at the entire globe's expense.15
~ David Graeber
No heart can conceive that treasury of mercies which lies in this one privilege, in having liberty and ability to approach unto God at all times, according to his mind and will.
~ John Owen
The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that.
~ Christopher Walken
The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.
~ George Washington
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.
~ Alexander Fraser Tytler
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.
~ Alexander Tyler