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" Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy. "

Alistair Darling

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" It starts with campaign finance reform. "

" Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it. "

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

" Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business. "

Ludwig von Mises

" Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure. "

" My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status. "

" I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive. "

" Education Secretary Betsy DeVos owes Ohio $5.3 million for campaign finance violations, and Mike DeWine's office refuses to collect the fine. "

Richard Cordray

" Like many other banks and finance companies, Green Tree used a process called securitization to resell its home loans to outside investors. Green Tree grouped thousands of these small loans into a pool worth hundreds of millions of dollars. "

" If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. "

George Bernard Shaw

" To finance deficits, the government must sell bonds to investors, competing for capital that could otherwise be used to invest in stocks or corporate bonds. Government borrowings raise long-term interest rates, stifling economic growth. "

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

" Trade deficits are OK under certain circumstance. 1. An emerging nation imports capital goods necessary to enhance its productivity. 2. A developed nation, with a current account surplus, uses some of its investment income to finance the purchases of additional consumer goods from abroad. "

" Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction. "

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

" I really love being finance director. "

" The Finance Ministry can bring about real social change. "

" In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out. "

" Artists should be able to thrive and allow their ideas to flourish as much as those in biotechnology or finance. "

" We confuse insurance with our moral obligation to provide health-care services to people. And what we try to do is finance our moral obligation through the insurance system, which punishes the people who are fiscally responsible to buy insurance. "

" I grew up in Finance. "

Jamie S. Miller

" Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG. "

" I wasn't always interested in technology. I had been a student for a long time - I'd earned a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and an MBA - and decided that I wanted to work in a large corporation, focusing on finance and law, in either New York or Chicago. "

John T. Chambers

" People in all walks of life, and especially business, do not want to experience the collapse of cities like New York along with global finance and economy in chaos, but this is what business faces if we continue to attribute climate change to fossil fuels alone. "

" In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. "

" In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films. "

Bruce Beresford

" Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them. "

" 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. "

Wolfgang Schauble

" I hope that there's a difference between being childish and childlike and that I'm the latter, if you take my meaning. I often sort of wonder. I don't think I'm a terribly good grown-up; I don't take responsibility easily or well in many areas of life. Finance and stuff like that, I'm absolutely appalling. "

" I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were. "