Quotes about "Money & Wealth"

We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial culture. We became a society utterly absorbed in consumption and dismissive of moderation. ”

Games tell stories best when they're elliptical and ambiguous and there's a sense of roaming and freedom. ”

I'm 85 years old. I've been in business since I was a teenager, practically; I was in grade school, and I even had a paper route. I always had a job so I could have money to spend on girls. ”

Certainly we're going to continue to see those commercials that I call 30-second drive-by shootings. And they're going to have a lot of money to do it. But we're going to combat it. ”

As mayor of Milwaukee, I've had many developers come and many businesses come and have asked for financial assistance from the city, and my questions have always been: how many jobs are we talking about and are these family-supporting jobs. ”

When I was a kid, everyone wanted to be in a band - that was the path to girls, adulation, money. ”

To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it. ”

We need to simplify the tax code to reward Americans for working hard, investing, saving - and allow families to keep more of their own money. ”

Freedom requires us to view people as wanting the opportunity to earn their success. ”

We need a conservative welfare reform initiative that is focused on putting people back to work and ensures taxpayer money is only spent on programs that have been proven to work. ”