Finance Quotes
“It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.”
“The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.”
-- David Dinkins
“In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.”
-- Elena Kagan
“Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.”
-- Mariano Rajoy
“But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries.”
-- Martin Feldstein
“Well, first let me say that I think health care reform is important. It has to be a priority. And our system is broken. The Finance Committee bill is the best effort yet, due in large measure to the efforts of my colleague, Olympia Snowe, but it's not there yet. It falls short.”
-- Susan Collins