Finance Quotes

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

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.

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.