183 private quotes tagged finance

“What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.” — James L. Buckley

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“We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.” — Tom Daschle

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“While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.” — Andrew Lo

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“My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.” — Merton Miller

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“I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.” — Merton Miller

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“Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.” — Merton Miller

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“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.” — Helen Fielding

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“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

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“Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film.” — Joely Richardson

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“Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution.” — Peer Steinbruck

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

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“I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.” — John Hurt

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“It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.” — Mark Rydell

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“As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.” — Steve Israel

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

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“I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.” — Ben Nelson

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“The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us.” — Arlie Russell Hochschild

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“Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.” — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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“I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now.” — Rick Santorum

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“Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.” — William J. Clinton

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“The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.” — Steven Patrick Morrissey

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“There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.” — Russell Baker

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“We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.” — Marcy Kaptur

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“One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.” — Sarah Jessica Parker

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“I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.” — Angela Merkel

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