“Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.”

“Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.”

“Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.”

“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.”

“The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.”

“A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.”

“I don't want euro bonds that serve to mutualize the entire debt of the countries in the euro zone. That can only work in the longer-term. I want euro bonds to be used to finance targeted investments in future-oriented growth projects. It isn't the same thing. Let's call them 'project bonds' instead of euro bonds.”

“The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates.”

“We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well.”

“Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.”

“Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.”

“My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.”

“I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.”

“The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.”

“Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.”

“My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.”

“Our incomes are like our shoes if too small, they gall and pinch us but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.”

“To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.”

“If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.”

“It starts with campaign finance reform.”

“We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today.”