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"Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here."
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"Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money."

"If an original piece of wardrobe came up from Star Wars, I'd probably spend a lot of money on it."

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"Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives."

"There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them."

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"I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about."

"The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake."

"History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums."

"To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills."

"Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country."

"I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University."

"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value."
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