“We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.”

“In the long term, Germany didn't need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end.”

“As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.”

“As Michigan's voice on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I will continue working to make sure the next generation of advanced technologies and alternative fuel vehicles are made right here in America.”

“What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.”

“The economy is a very sensitive organism.”

“Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.”

“While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.”