Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.
~By Jesse Helms ~
The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.
~By Theo de Raadt ~
The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.
~By Norman Ralph Augustine ~
Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can't think of anything I'd want to spend my money on.
~By Guy Ritchie ~
But only 'rich' people by definition have the 'extra' money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that 'extra' money away - and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times?
~By Terry Savage ~
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
~By Johnny Cash ~
We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.
~By Peter Akinola ~
Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
~By Charles Farrar Browne ~
I think I'd like to contribute to society in some way. I don't know what that might be. Right now, I just sort of give bums money on the street.
~By Isabelle Kuprin ~
But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table.
~By Al Alvarez ~
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
~By Aristotle Onassis ~
The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.
~By Alma Guillermoprieto ~
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
~By Saul Bellow ~
I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
~By Muhammad Yunus ~
Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.
~By Bill Lipinski ~
But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.
~By Josiah Stamp ~
The law is bigger than money - but only if the law works hard enough.
~By Thomas Dewey ~
I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.
~By Kurt Russell ~
When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though.
~By Penelope Spheeris ~
You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.
~By Greg LeMond ~
I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.
~By Bryan Ferry ~
The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money.
~By John Kluge ~
My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.
~By Alfred Molina ~
As I've said before, free money scams are a problem.
~By Matthew Lesko ~
George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.
~By Paul McCartney ~
I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.
~By Themistocles ~
I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.
~By Camille Claudel ~
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
~By Dan Millman ~
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
~By Albert Camus ~
Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
~By John Barrymore ~
Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
~By Bart Stupak ~
Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money.
~By John McCarthy ~
I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.
~By Jason Mewes ~
Money without brains is always dangerous.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive.
~By Corrine Brown ~
Later on when it became a routine it was not as exciting I'll admit that. The first three years were wonderful, the rest were just money making and having fun.
~By Larry Hagman ~
I am neither a free-trade man, willing to collect all the money we have to raise by direct tax upon the people, nor am I willing to lay a tax simply for protection when the Government does not need the money.
~By Joseph E. Brown ~
I'd be a fool to be in this for the money.
~By Benny Hinn ~
I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.
~By Charles S. Dutton ~
People have to pay a lot of money to play soccer here.
~By Thomas Dooley ~
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
~By Billie Jean King ~
The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike.
~By Guy Lafleur ~
Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
~By Dan Quayle ~
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
~By Samuel Butler ~
I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
~By John D. Rockefeller ~
Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.
~By Victoria Jackson ~
We still have that same burn, to get that same kind of laughs. So whether the studio wants us to or not, we're going to do it. The money is just a byproduct of coming out with good stuff. Our whole thing is building that rapport with the audience.
~By Shawn Wayans ~
And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.
~By Esther Dyson ~
You read a lot about movies with budgets of $25 to 30 million. Hell, if a studio can piss away that kind of money, why not let 'em piss on me?
~By Roy Scheider ~
Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see what I ask for. I won't ask for nothing. I'll play under the same terms. So it is not Gary wants more money. Gary has money. What else do I need?
~By Gary Sheffield ~
It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.
~By Ron Livingston ~
I probably wouldn't have done as many as I did in one year, which I did when I was trying to raise money.
~By John Sayles ~
Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
~By Peter Drucker ~
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
~By Evan Esar ~
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
~By Jane Austen ~
The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money.
~By Robert Byrd ~
The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.
~By Florence E. Allen ~
I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.
~By Kevin Bacon ~
It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.
~By Dorothy Day ~
I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or singing or writing. It would just drive me crazy if I didn't.
~By Paul Simon ~
Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
~By Samuel L. Jackson ~
We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.
~By Mitch Daniels ~
Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
~By Benjamin Tucker ~
Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children.
~By Thomas Jordan Jarvis ~
A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.
~By William Baldwin ~
Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
~By Calvin Klein ~
All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company.
~By John Lone ~
The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.
~By Peter Buffett ~
Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.
~By Iggy Pop ~
I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.
~By Martin Yan ~
I was a little different. I still say I'm a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house.
~By Herschel Walker ~
The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.
~By James L. Buckley ~
Well, it takes a certain amount of money. And I've got to see pictures of the person ahead of time. If I don't like the way the person looks I won't do it.
~By Helmut Newton ~
When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men.
~By Ahmed Ben Bella ~
We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy.
~By Jeffrey Sachs ~
They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.
~By Cass Elliot ~
We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.
~By Bob Filner ~
Millionaires are marrying their secretaries because they are so busy making money they haven't time to see other girls.
~By Doris Lilly ~
You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don't say nothin' 'bout the money. 'Hi, how ya doin'? How's ya mama doing?' Man, how's my money doin'?
~By Chris Tucker ~
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
~By Horace Mann ~
Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
~By Marya Mannes ~
I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or have capacity to gain access to large amounts of money.
~By Birch Bayh ~
What was the reason for invading Iraq' Was it a humanitarian crusade or an economic one' I would be inclined to say the latter. It was the same with the Civil War, because the landed gentry's money was being stolen by the king.
~By Dougray Scott ~
The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.
~By Anatoly Chubais ~
Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot.
~By Roger Corman ~
I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.
~By Jimmy Dean ~
Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood.
~By Neil Abercrombie ~
The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.
~By William Christopher Handy ~
That was the big secret. Walt would do things over and over again, with no regard to money, to get things perfect.
~By Frank Tashlin ~
We need to stop spending money on death, the war in Iraq and on enhancing the lives of the people in our own country.
~By Dick Morris ~
I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.
~By Kinky Friedman ~
I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.
~By Beryl Bainbridge ~
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
~By Roger Babson ~
I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.
~By George W. Bush ~
We spent a lot of money on some players.
~By Bobby Bonilla ~
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