Money Quotes

My mom did not have money. She was a single mom, on and off in periods between marriages. My husband, however, grew up on a wonderful farm in Tuscany, in Florence, and his family was so entertaining in terms of growing their own food and using the fruit of their land. We have very, very different experiences.

~ Debi Mazar

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

~ Margaret Thatcher

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

~ George Papandreou

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

~ Carly Fiorina

We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.

~ Marco Rubio

I hate the unfairness of injustice. Anybody who thinks they are better than others or 'chosen' or feel they have an entitlement... be it through monarchy, government or money. I think we are all born the same. We are entitled to an equal shot at life.

~ Liam Cunningham

We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

~ Richard M. Nixon

What makes me angry is when people know what is right but have, over the years, attuned themselves to the fact that what they're doing, stealing money from government, is acceptable.

~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.

~ Marco Rubio

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

~ Ronald Reagan

The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit.

~ Mike Johanns

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

~ Will Rogers

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

~ Mitch Mcconnell

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

~ Robert Duncan

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.

~ Ron Paul

All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

~ Iain Duncan Smith

The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs.

~ Joe Lieberman

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

~ Fareed Zakaria

There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.

~ Arthur C. Brooks

Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.

~ Bob Riley

Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T.

~ Louie Gohmert

Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward to save money.

~ Michael Enzi

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

~ Ronald Reagan

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.

~ Larry Ellison

I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual.

~ Andre Rieu

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

~ Kay Bailey Hutchison

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

~ Larry Elder

I don't understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I'm interested in someone, and I don't want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I'm not interested in that person.

~ Britney Spears

I'm dating myself by saying this, but I was the test audience for 'Space Invaders.' I remember when that was the first game that wasn't a pinball game. I spent a lot of money on 'Space Invaders,' in the form of quarters, of course.

~ John C. Reilly

I have run from a lot of relationships in favor of being alone. And I tend to find men who use their money and status as a dating tool to be unattractive.

~ Erin Foster

I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter. I tried to make up for being short by affecting a strut, by adopting the voice of a much bigger man, by spending more money than I made, by tipping double or triple at bars and restaurants, by dating tall, beautiful women.

~ Mickey Rooney

I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dating a few people who were from old money and a few from new money in my 20s, I just sort of became obsessed with this idea of clueless rich people.

~ Natasha Leggero

Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.

~ Andre Dubus Iii

Dating now is a lot like going shopping when you don't have any money. Even if you find the right thing, you can't do anything about it.

~ Joshua Harris

I don't come from a lot of money and wasn't going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford an education was to allow the military to supplement it.

~ Jon Huertas

If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an education, and the best education. The money should be distributed equally to all.

~ Carl Paladino

You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won't get higher student outcomes.

~ Andreas Schleicher

First a piece of Irish wisdom: you should always listen to a bookie. For they have a saying, 'Money tells a good story,' and somewhere in their odds is a kind of science-fiction existentialism that decrees that we, the people, know everything. In other words, betting patterns often make for good, unconscious soothsaying.

~ Frank Delaney

Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.

~ Fabrice Muamba

I'm a hard worker, and everything with me is, if I work hard, I should get paid for it. Everything with me, I try to symbolize something flashy like jewelry or a car. The rubbing hands is a symbol of hustling, so it goes back to the money.

~ Birdman