There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Every time the Fed implements ‚quantitative easing,‘ a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

Money often costs too much.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

We’re still in a recession. We’re not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.

Food Stamp recipients didn’t cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it’s the right thing to do. It’s economics 101, elementary stuff.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

The problem with being an employee or self-employed is you pay the highest taxes.

Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

I just think that – when a country needs more income and we do, we’re only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that – that – when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.

Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end – people like myself – should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we’ve ever had it.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

No one saw the recession coming.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

Even if the economy crashes, we will still burn oil.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

I will cut taxes – cut taxes – for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

It isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, ‚How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?‘

Deflation isn’t good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.