Campaigns Quote by Donald Trump

You've seen my statements; I do very well. I don't mind paying some taxes. The middle class is getting clobbered in this country. You…

— Donald Trump

I think the idea that the hedge fund manager gets lower taxes than the taxi driver or the physics professor is insane. The legislators…

— Charlie Munger

I know hedge-fund guys that are making hundreds of millions of dollars a year and pay no tax. And I want to lower [tax]…

— Donald Trump

The idea that it's smart to allow Wall Street firms, with this "too big to fail" imprimatur, to become hedge funds again - it's…

— Michael Lewis

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…

— Shia LaBeouf

Hedge funds are investment pools that are relatively unconstrained in what they do. They are relatively unregulated (for now), charge very high fees, will…

— Cliff Asness

In 2008, people who invested in hedge funds needed capital badly, but many of the funds would not return their money. However, I gave…

— Carl Icahn

Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they…

— Barry Ritholtz

It is intellectually dishonest to lump venture investors with hedge fund and buy-out investors.

— Jose Ferreira

Hedge-fund managers make too much money relative to their social utility. I wish their rewards were a bit closer to those of, say, schoolteachers.

— David Ignatius

I am committed to the people who are sick and tired of seeing their tax dollars being used to fund unethical people and corporations.

— Carl Hart

Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.

— Jack Reed