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.

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

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

My task over the last two years hasn’t just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

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

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

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.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.

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.

Money has a language of its own.

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

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.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

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.

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

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.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.

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?‘

And what’s interesting, and I don’t think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, one, most new jobs are created by small businesses; two, most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there.

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

When you look at how much we spend on social programs in our country, it separates us from a lot of countries. In our country, if you’re hungry, we’ll feed you. If you’re homeless, we’ll house you. If you’re too poor to be sick, we’ll pay for your doctor. But all of that comes at a cost.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

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

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.

I just don’t like mutual funds. I think they’re a rip-off.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

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.

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.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

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.

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

I know it’s going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we’re in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

You know people talk about federal money as if it falls from heaven. You know we thank heaven for it, but it came out of people’s pockets – and I’ve driven all over Washington, D.C., I cannot find the money tree.

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

I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

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

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy – well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I’m President, I never will.

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.

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don’t know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn’t have cash on him.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

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

It costs governments money to keep fuel prices low. Oil-rich Yemen, for instance, devotes 9 percent of its GDP to making sure its people don’t riot when oil prices rise.

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

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 investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

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.

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

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.

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

Foreigners don’t want to invest any more in France – and this is not working.