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Money Quotes


"What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes."


"I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there."


"The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors."


"The only thing I like about rich people is their money."


"Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money."


"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing."


"Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money."


"The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you."


"It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own."



"So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US with half the stores. Returns were higher."


"We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers."



"Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories."


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


"There's a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain't got it."


"I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying."



"Today, they're just up there for the money, just packaged and be gone."


"The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god."


"Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money."


"You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out."



"Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance."


"I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that's Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. They're telling you to give them your money otherwise you're going to hell."



"Money does not motivate me as long as I can provide for my children."


"I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money."


"We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money."



"It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way."


"Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole."
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