Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.

The dollar has lost over 90 percent of its value since the Fed was created.

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

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.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

When I was born, the economy wasn’t in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers‘ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I’m not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

A financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it’s a well run institution – say, Goldman Sachs – it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

Of course, I do everything for money.

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

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn’t have to write for my living.

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

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

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.

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.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

I don’t follow politics much.

When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.