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Money Quotes


"The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored."


"I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it."



"You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money."


"Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected."



"Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security."



"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy."


"Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users."



"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."


"Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn."



"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on."


"The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country."


"In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money."


"Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation."


"The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there."


"A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader."


"Not only should we be giving Amtrak the money it needs to continue to provide services; we should be providing security money to upgrade their tracks and improve safety and security measures in the entire rail system."


"The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money."


"The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about."


"The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income."


"It's a little weird exchanging pictures for money. You know what I mean. It makes me a little uncomfortable."


"No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money."


"Bob Arum and Don King can do their thing but if I fought for those guys and they put the money up like they are supposed to then I don't have a problem."


"A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles."


"Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?"



"The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money."


"It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money."



"There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise."
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