Treasury Quotes · Page 3

Now Barack Obama, who campaigned for transparency, is the President defending secret negotiations on new trade agreements that are largely being written…

— Bill Moyers

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

— Merton Miller

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

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

The governments alone are responsible for the spread of the superstitious awe with which the common man looks upon every bit of…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

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

The primary factor that enables our government to peddle economic snake oil is the dollar's unique role as the world's reserve currency,…

— Peter Schiff

In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department…

— Solomon Ortiz

They are having quite an argument over Treasury Secretary Mellon's Tax Bill. Mr. Mellon wants to cut the surtax on the rich,…

— Will Rogers

I didn't know you were Catholic.

— Nancy Pelosi

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

— Naomi Wolf

I was dupedby the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

When I was seven or eight, I was bought a fantastic book called 'The Movie Treasury of Horror Movies' by Alan G.…

— Mark Gatiss

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

Behind each biography there should always be a rich treasury of unformulated knowledge, a tapestry that has not been unrolled.

— Iris Origo

How Sweet the name of Jesus... the rock on which I build, my shield and hiding place, my never failing treasury, filled…

— John Newton

When I left law school, I wanted to go into the government, into the tax policy area. I got the job that…

— Dan Burt

If your employer pays your health insurance, that's not counted as income to you. And any economist would say that's your income,…

— T.R. Reid

By purchasing and holding large amounts of Treasury securities and MBS, we put additional downward pressure on term premiums and so on…

— Jerome Powell

Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!

— Will Rogers