939 private quotes tagged money

“My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer less fun and less money.” — Shia LaBeouf

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“We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.” — Barack Obama

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“They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.” — Shia LaBeouf

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“My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind.” — Shia LaBeouf

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“You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.” — Barack Obama

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“I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism, that's corporate welfare.” — Paul Ryan

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“When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.” — Paul Ryan

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“And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.” — Marco Rubio

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“That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.” — Paul Ryan

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“We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.” — Marco Rubio

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“We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, 'Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is.” — Hillary Clinton

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“President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!” — Mitt Romney

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“President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs.” — John Sununu

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“I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesn't make any difference what the interest rate is. They're not - they're not going to loan the money because they can't make any money for one thing plus the cost of compliance.” — Rick Perry

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“As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens.” — Rick Perry

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“Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people think about when they invest their money.” — Marco Rubio

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“You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.” — Shia LaBeouf

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“At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.” — Shia LaBeouf

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“I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.” — Shia LaBeouf

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“Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.” — Lady Gaga

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“What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.” — Paul Ryan

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“I don't care about money.” — Lady Gaga

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“We need to stop spending money we don't have.” — Paul Ryan

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“You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.” — Lady Gaga

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“I don't want to make money I want to make a difference.” — Lady Gaga

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