Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college.

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’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

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

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That’s a statement in and of itself.

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

Until we have comprehensive financial education, we’ll never see the end of our booms and busts.

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.

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

We also cannot allow Wall Street banks to rewrite the Second Amendment just because they’re too big to fail.

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

Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it’s going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you’ll never see it.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

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

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.

No one saw the recession coming.

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.

Trust is central to an economy that works.

I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

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

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

I love big business!

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

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

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

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?‘

I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money… but city and state governments cannot.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

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

When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you’re not just bringing the products, but you’re also harming local manufacturers.

In the middle of a recession, where we’re just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

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

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

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

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.

In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on farmers. It’s hard to believe, but it was based in Texas, and it was quite radical. They wanted their own banks, their own cooperatives, their own control over sales and commerce.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

The subprime disaster was a result of financial bombs – derivatives – exploding in financial institutions such as AIG and Lehman Brothers, as well as banks and financial institutions throughout the world.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

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.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

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

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

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

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

We didn’t become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn’t come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn’t do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: ‚What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?‘

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘

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.

Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.

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

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Economy’s got to get moving, we’ve got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.