Quotes About Finance

However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers.

You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

We're not going to default. We just won't default. I mean, there are ways of not defaulting even if you don't raise the debt ceiling, and even if you don't fund the government.

Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare.

Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development.

In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.

Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.

The Government will not abandon the free conversion of the rouble

Instead of taxing rich people, governments borrow from them, and pay them interest for the privilege.

I think the British government's cutting back of arts funding is such a crime. I bet it will happen in Denmark soon, too.

Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.

The government can indefinitely control both short-term and long-term interest rates.

Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government

It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?

When government is... bailing out banks... we have every good reason to be alarmed.

Jobs are a key essential in the Budget.They are government's number one priority and the Budget is going to reflect that.

Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

President Herbert Hoover returned his salary to the government. His idea caught on, and now we're all doing it.

We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.

The positive aspect of my negative view is essentially that you shouldn't own cash and government bonds, but you should be in assets like real estate or equities or precious metals or in commodities.

Let's not allow the voice of the people to be overwhelmed by the siren song of those who opposed regulation, who demanded that government should stand aside and let finance and business run the show.

The massive debt we have racked up to finance our wasteful government is pulling down growth today. Gross debt over 90 percent of GDP weakens growth now. Not tomorrow - now.