Money Quotes by Thomas Sowell

The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation...

— Thomas Sowell

Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth…

— Thomas Sowell

“financial transactions that produced both wealth and unpopularity.”

— Thomas Sowell

In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not…

— Thomas Sowell

Money goes out first to pay expenses and then comes back as profits later - if at all. The high rate of…

— Thomas Sowell

Those who want to "spread the wealth" almost invariably seek to concentrate the power. It happens too often, and in too many…

— Thomas Sowell

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in…

— Thomas Sowell

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give…

— Thomas Sowell

If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right…

— Thomas Sowell

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want…

— Thomas Sowell

People who decry the fact that businesses are in business "just to make money" seldom understand the implications of what they are…

— Thomas Sowell

The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep…

— Thomas Sowell

If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a 'stimulus,' then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to…

— Thomas Sowell

Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise,…

— Thomas Sowell

“In other words, it is the amount of money that colleges and universities can get—from tuition, endowment income, donations, etc.—which determines how…

— Thomas Sowell

People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by…

— Thomas Sowell

What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone…

— Thomas Sowell

Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there…

— Thomas Sowell

Financial institutions are not being bailed out as a favor to them or their stockholders. In fact, stockholders have come out worse…

— Thomas Sowell

“Talk about how various people have been “winners” in “the lottery of life” or have things that others don’t have just because…

— Thomas Sowell

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a…

— Thomas Sowell

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade.…

— Thomas Sowell

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more…

— Thomas Sowell

If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises,…

— Thomas Sowell

Most of the people in the upper income brackets are not rich and do not have wealth sheltered offshore. They are typically…

— Thomas Sowell

The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has…

— Thomas Sowell

Since the government creates no wealth, it can only transfer the wealth required to hire people. Even if the government creates a…

— Thomas Sowell

Securities based on risky mortgages are what toppled financial institutions but it was the government that made the mortgages risky in the…

— Thomas Sowell