Welfare is monetary methadone.

I was on Vicodin, Valium and Ambien, and toward the end, which caused my overdose, methadone. I didnt know it was methadone. I used…

— Eminem

Opioid replacement therapy is the standard evidence-based model to treat people with acute opioid addiction, and that is unassailable according to every research study…

— Patrick J. Kennedy

Drug programs began to turn their attention and money away from prevention and into maintenance. Methadone was cheaper than social workers, I suppose.

— John Dufresne

Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is…

— Ivan Illich

He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.

— James Taylor

My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones…

— Adam Carolla

Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.

— Abraham Lincoln

I've always believed in expansionary monetary policy and if necessary fiscal policy when the economy is depressed.

— Paul Krugman

In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary…

— Bob Ney

That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we…

— Vaclav Klaus

Reflecting an amalgam of economics, monetary, and psychological factors, the stock market represents possibly the most subtly intricate game invented by man.

— Richard Arnold Epstein

Few policies are more calculated to destroy the existing basis of a free society than the debauching of its currency. And few tasks, if…

— Hans F. Sennholz

Monetary policy transmission encompasses the whole continuum of interest rates; of course, the central bank only determines the overnight policy rate.

— Urjit Patel

Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal…

— Amity Shlaes

Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is…

— Peter Schiff