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" The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. "

John Maynard Keynes

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" Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee. "

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" As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections. "

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

Alistair Darling

" A tax system is important because of what it can pay for, but also for how it works. When we pay taxes, we expect something back from the state; it strengthens the relationship and accountability between us and our governments. It also pays for what private finance shouldn't: our needs for healthcare, education and social security. "

Winnie Byanyima

" The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance. "

" Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters. "

" Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse. "

" The government that came into power after the April 1994 elections was going to need a budget. It was drafted by our finance minister, Derek Keys, and he convinced them of the necessity to stay within the free-market principles that had been in force in South Africa for decades. "

" When I graduated, I promptly took a job in finance, making both my pre-med and poli-sci years essentially useless - or so I thought. "

" In July of 2010, I lost my finance job in Chicago. Instead of updating my resume and looking for a similar job, I decided to forget about money and have a go at something I truly enjoyed. I'd purchased a semi-professional camera earlier that year and spent my free time taking photos in downtown Chicago. "

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" The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change. "

" I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out. "

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" Inflation is taxation without legislation. "

Milton Friedman

" The confidence is really driven by the woman - whether she can have the confidence that there will be enough earning or income to finance all the domestic spending - but also by the middle-income class, which for many Asian countries has become the growth power for the economy. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods. "

John Maynard Keynes

" Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes, bought cars, took out student loans. "

Elizabeth Warren

" In abandoning the understanding that things - services, goods, wars, and houses - have costs, we risk becoming infantilised, incapable of making decisions about government or finance, and perhaps above all about the environment, the wellbeing of the planet upon which we depend and which our children will inherit from us. "