Treasury Quotes · Page 2

You can't just, boopity-boop, saunter into the Treasury. You need an appointment.

— Louise Linton

In five years of my previous tenure, the treasury was never shut for one day.

— Amarinder Singh

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

— Will Rogers

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

— Herbert Hoover

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.

— Terence

Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord.

— Ellen G. White

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

— Honore de Balzac

“No need to be sarcastic, Codex. I think that's sincere, actually. Wow.”

— Cassandra Clare

The Treasury has responsibility for increasing employment and productivity, ensuring strong growth and competitiveness across all regions of the U.K.

— Nicky Morgan

If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles,…

— Ludwig von Mises

As a shadow minister I've been working with the Treasury team for years and they've been clear we couldn't make unfunded commitments.

— Liz Kendall

In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres…

— Timothy West

Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice…

— Karl Marx

I mean, Hank Paulson is in there [ Treasury] at the wrong time, probably shouldn't have taken the job. He's a friend…

— Warren Buffett

There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and…

— James K. Polk

I think likelier targets are [Steve] Mnuchin, the Treasury pick. When you look at his dealings during the financial crisis, that's going…

— Rich Lowry

No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not…

— C. Northcote Parkinson

Transcending gives a human being a chance to think before acting. And experiencing this beautiful treasury within gets rid of torment and…

— David Lynch

War, and more wars, are helping Government to siphon the earnings of its people into its treasury for its own selfish purpose,…

— Walter Russell

When the secretary of treasury, the head of the central bank, the head of the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.), and the…

— Jamie Dimon

Each central banksought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level…

— Carroll Quigley

I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities,…

— Winston Churchill

All men are interdependent. Every nation is an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labor to which both the living…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand…

— George Ayittey

I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.

— Flann O'Brien

Globalization has altered the dynamics in the White House, as well as between the White House and the Treasury.

— George W Bush

There's a treasury full of jade and jewels; It is in you. Don't go searching far from home for it-it's here.

— Gautama Buddha

“Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war.”

— Aristophanes

I would have my secretary of treasury be in touch with the financial centers, not only here but at home.

— George W. Bush

One should not seek among others the truth that can be easily gotten from the Church. For in her, as in a…

— Irenaeus of Lyons

“Here we attempt to answer those questions that arise most frequently. YES, THAT IS WHAT 'FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS' MEANS, THANK YOU.”

— Cassandra Clare

The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has. They can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for…

— Howard Warren Buffett

The whole of government needs to contribute to the shared goal of restructuring the British economy. But that means taking on the…

— David Miliband

Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed…

— Robert Walpole

The Treasury Department has a critical role to play in helping to set the direction of a U.S. and global economy, a…

— Henry Paulson

When a leader has deployed a private army, that is one definition of a police state. Another is when the president, or…

— Naomi Wolf

The Jews are a class violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department, and also department orders and are herein…

— Ulysses S. Grant

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they…

— Alexander Fraser Tytler

One of our predecessors said, "Throwing away the inexhaustible treasury of your own home, you go with your bowl from door to…

— Zicheng Hong

No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public…

— Alexander Fraser Tytler