“Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.”

“At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.”

“A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.”

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”

“Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.”

“What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.”

“We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.”

“Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.”

“The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.”