Quotes about Finance

“Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.”

“It's cheaper to buy a house and finance it than it is to rent in many markets.”

“One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.”

“In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.”

“I've been a pain in the rear for the Republican Party, and if I were to continue to be involved in the Democratic Party, I will continue to be a pain in the rear on campaign finance, health care, the environment. I'm not interested in party loyalty issues.”

“Getting finance together can take a while.”

“When you walk into a room and you're asking someone to give you money to finance an idea, that's never easy.”

“I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.”

“There is a time for weighing evidence and a time for acting. And if there's one thing I've learned throughout my work in finance, government, and conservation, it is to act before problems become too big to manage.”

“Entrepreneurs - both women and men - need equal and fair access to finance - to create new businesses, to reach to new markets, and to adapt to climate change.”

“About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”

“I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.”

“If the need for comprehensive campaign finance reform was not already clear, the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United permitting unlimited corporate and union spending in campaigns certainly made it so in 2010.”

“Our system of student finance has delivered the chance of a university education to vastly more people than ever before, and made it more likely that disadvantaged young people will be offered the chance to get a degree. But it has some very real flaws, some potentially fatal, that the government ignores at its peril.”

“Most of the people I came across in the finance and business world were honest people, doing the best for their staff and for their family. But I encountered many who weren't.”

“We need a sustainable system of student finance that promotes opportunity, encourages aspiration, increases social mobility and is governed by fairness. But all the Tories can offer is unsustainable, mounting debt, punishing students for wanting an education. And discouraging thousands of young people from climbing the ladder to a better life.”

“Wealthy individuals have always had the capacity to influence politics, of course, but only after two key campaign finance cases - Wisconsin Right to Life and and Citizens United, have they been able to do it in such a large and blatant way.”

“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.”

“No single housing finance institution should be too big to fail.”

“If you really think about the fabric of the United States, or the finance of any economy, finance is a true underpinning of what makes the economy great - if it can be done successfully, responsibly, and with a client orientation.”

“Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner store and buy really cheap baseball style caps and wear those to school.”