Quotes about "Money & Wealth"

Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. ”

Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money. ”

President Obama has contempt for real money. ”

Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds and shovel-ready stimulus programs of their day. ”

As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks off Persians, Arabs off one another, and the English off everyone. ”

When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money. ”

Freedom is for fun. ”

There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. ”

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money. ”

If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington. ”