If you’re worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it’s almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.

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

Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the ‚intrinsic value‘ of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.

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

Our diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that ‚shining city on a hill.‘ And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can’t do it on the cheap.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

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.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

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

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

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.

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.

I’m looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

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.‘

Don’t hold against me that I don’t own – that I don’t own a single stock or bond. Don’t hold it – I have no savings accounts.

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.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

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.

Don’t forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

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

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.

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

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.

I’m going to retain a lot of Microsoft’s stock.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Trust is central to an economy that works.

When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials.

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

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.

‚Credit‘ is another word for trustworthiness.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

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

We can’t get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can’t just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

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.

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?‘

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we’re spending in Pakistan, we’re spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

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

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

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

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.

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.

This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent of the money.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

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

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

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.

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

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