Money Quotes

Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.

Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don't.

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.

That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.

A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behavior.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

Politics is not about money.

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.

Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.

And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

Money is a kind of poetry.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.