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Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless. ”
I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you've got lots of imagination then you don't really need much money, and if you've got lots of money then you won't bother with much imagination. ”
There was a jingle house called Lucas/McFaul in New York, and they called me 'the demo king.' I almost never had the big final - in jingles, you have the big final, and then you sing on it, and you make a good deal of money. ”
Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts. ”
It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office. ”
Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom. ”
We need to get rid of the 16th amendment, and return to the original system that funds government with a variety of tariffs and duties. ”
Voluntary public funding of elections solves the free speech 'problem' with more speech instead of more regulation: by giving qualified candidates who show broad-based constituent support enough matching public funds to mount a credible campaign. ”
Stemming the tide of special interest campaign cash - and restoring fiscal responsibility in Congress - is no easy task. But there is one place where concerned citizens in both parties can begin: Changing the source of money that funds all campaigns. ”
The Republican Party I represented proudly for 18 years did not shy away from taking on special-interest money when it conflicted with constituents' needs. ”