Accounting Quote by Jim Costa

It makes a difference who the treasury secretary is.

— Warren Buffett

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

— Henry Paulson

The Treasury's plan has little for those outside of the financial industry. It is aimed at rescuing the same financial institutions that created this…

— Richard Shelby

“Green recorded these initial thoughts about government: "Either the people will pay direct taxes, or they will pay none if they know it; and…

— Michael Rubbinaccio

No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.

— Joyce Cary

The Treasury plan is a disgrace: a bailout of reckless bankers, lenders and investors that provides little direct debt relief to borrowers and financially…

— Nouriel Roubini

We have major fiscal problems on our hand.

— Chaka Fattah

I worry that we're seeing a situation- Obama's administration not only committing us the huge deficits for the future, but is also redefining the…

— Dick Cheney

If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would come up…

— Meg Greenfield

We're in a pretty tumultuous world, and there's a lot of uncertainty. Treasurys are where people go as one of the few safe havens…

— Gary Shilling

This is very intriguing to think we should audit the Fed, but I discovered that probably if they audited the Fed, it would get…

— G. Edward Griffin

I am specifically concerned about the idea that the legislative process is one that gets characterized the way it is as the 'fiscal cliff.'…

— Lloyd Blankfein