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“These people are pouring in this kind of money because they want to be able to control the outcomes that happen on the congressional level. This is it, plain and simple. You don’t invest that kind of money without expecting a return...They are investing in corporatist-type Democrats because they want a return on their investment.”
Nina Turner (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ought these good people be subjected to the immoral influence of money taken from the saloon tainted money? Out of respect for the tender consciences of these pious people, the Raines law ought to exempt them from all contamination from the plunder that comes from the saloon traffic. Say, mark that sarcastic. Some people who ain’t used to fine sarcasm might think I meant it. p. 85”
George Washington Plunkitt (1842–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We will take back control of our money, by putting an end to vast annual payments to the EU. Instead, we will be able to spend British taxpayers' money on our own priorities, like the extra £394m per week that we are investing in our long-term plan for the NHS.”
Theresa May (born 1956) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reality Check: Theresa May's Brexit letter BBC News (26 November 2018).
“Money and generous benefits can easily alter a person’s political outlook. Ideology follows the money.”
L. K. Samuels (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In 2015, federal authorities fined the... bankrupt Trump Taj Mahal $10 million for violations of anti-money-laundering laws. ...In a 1998 [$450,000] settlement... the Taj Mahal was cited for breaking anti-money-laundering laws 106 times in... 18 months of operation.”
John Feffer (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Panama Papers... leaked... from ... revealed... mechanisms by which Putin's associates transferred enormous... money[s] overseas... to conceal assets. Putin... parked... money in shell companies created by... associates.”
John Feffer (born 1963) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ref: , Revealed: the $2bn offshore trail that leads to Vladimir Putin The Guardian (Apr 3, 2016)
“Money is not coins and bank notes. Money is anything that people... use... to represent... value... for... exchanging goods and services.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The... money in the world is about $60 trillion, yet... coins and bank notes is less than $6 trillion. More than 90% percent of all money... [>]$50 trillion... in our accounts... exists only on computer servers.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Money is more open-minded than language, state law, cultural codes, religious beliefs and social habits. Money... can bridge almost any cultural gap, and does not discriminate on the basis of religion, gender, race, age or sexual orientation.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We can't have the president of the United States acting like the drug dealer in chief, giving clean packs of money to a ... state sponsor of terror. Those 500-euro notes will pop up across the Middle East. .... We're going to see problems in multiple (countries) because of that money given to them.”
Mark Kirk (born 1959) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Responding to reports that the Obama administration paid $400 million in cash of an agreed settlement to a 35-year case in international court to Iran. (August 21, 2016)
“It has long been speculated that money predates writing because the earliest examples of writing appear to be records of monetary debts—meaning that the closely intertwined chronology of the development of writing and money will make it impossible to find a written history.”
L. Randall Wray (born 1953) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: L. Randall Wray, The Credit Money, State Money, and Endogenous Money Approaches: A Survey and Attempted Integration. (2005)
“Of course I see both the things. For an actor you don’t have as many years to work as others do. I cannot work from 18 – 50 years of age. No doubt now there are different genres that are giving equally importance to older woman. It’s like make hay when there’s sunshine. I don’t take up a show for money, I take it up for the concept and then I see if the money is good or not.”
Drashti Dhami (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I was working at Planned Parenthood I was extremely pro-choice, I would say there was a definite conversion in my heart... a spiritual conversion. Every meeting that we had was, "We don't have enough money, we don't have enough money — we've got to keep these abortions coming," It's a very lucrative business and that's why they want to increase numbers.”
Abby Johnson (born 1980) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Planned Parenthood Director Quits After Watching Abortion on Ultrasound (November 2, 2009)
“[Asked why he never made a film like the art house titles his company distributed: I]t's an economic situation. All of those films were made in Europe with government subsidies. Fellini, Bergman, Truffaut did not have the necessity of having to earn their money back and so they were free to do what they liked. In the US it's different. It's a money-making industry, so that's what you have to do”
Roger Corman (1926–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Her life was a complete mess, true, but it could be straightened out. All it would take was money. Money could straighten out anything, if you had enough of it.”
Michael Swanwick (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In secondary school, a boy and a girl, both of them teenagers, both of them with the same amount of pocket money, would go out and then the boy would be expected always to pay, to prove his masculinity. And yet we wonder why boys are more likely to steal money from their parents.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 1977) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: We Should All Be Feminists - April 12, 2013
“It was easy. It was a classic case of the owner not believing in the idea more than anyone else. But now when I look back, I feel unthankful that we got no funding, else we'd have used all the money in more things. This forced us to re-invent ourselves from the ground up. The no-money module works”
Akshay Agrawal (born 1998) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Class Apart - Mid Day 23rd October 2016
“I do not pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.”
Robert Bosch (1861–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The abolition of enslavement to interest on money signifies the only possible and conclusive liberation of productive labor from the hidden coercive money-powers.”
Gottfried Feder (1883–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Liberation from enslavement to interest on money is the clear motto for the global revolution, for the liberation of productive labor from the chains of the supragovernmental money-powers.”
Gottfried Feder (1883–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mammonism is the sinister, invisible, mysterious reign of the great international money-powers. Mammonism is however also a mindset; it is the worship of these money-powers on the part of all those who are infected with the Mammonistic poison.”
Gottfried Feder (1883–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He would start a business, lose money, close it and start another. That would make money for a while, and then the cycle would repeat.”
Robert Kuok (born 1923) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They [the psychics] find someone that's at a vulnerable point in their life. They create a sense of dependency. They create a pseudo-world. They will tell people, "I'm doing God's work. I'm taking the money to the altar". The amount of money that these people are defrauded of by these so-called psychics is astronomical. We're talking in the billions of dollars.”
Bob Nygaard first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: This Ex-Cop Has Locked Up 28 ‘Psychic’ Scammers, Returned $3.2M to Victims, patheos.com (21 August 2017)
“Without money, terrorists were just angry young men with an axe to grind. With money, the metaphorical axe became real and sharp and terrifying. He knew that very well – had learnt it the hard way – from his murder investigation in Bali after the bombings there.”
Shamini Flint (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Money doesn't make you confident, material things don't make you confident. Your work ethic makes you confident; your achievements make you confident. It's about setting goals, and it's about whether or not you reach them. I know a lot of people with money who are not happy, who are insecure, who are basically train wrecks.”
Erika Jayne (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The opposite of work is idleness. But very few of us know what to do with idleness. When you look at the way that we distribute our lives in general, you realize that in the periods in which we have a lot of money, we have very little time. And then when we finally have time, we have neither the money nor the health.”
Ricardo Semler (born 1959) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: TED: "How to run a company with (almost) no rules" (October 2014)
“I still want money to call me … Money must still recognise me and be like, ‘that’s my girl”
Khanyi Mbau (born 1985) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Say what now?! Khanyi’s unfiltered quotes on Mbau Reloaded S1,14 June 2022,By Zimkhitha
“Both doctrines, corporate personhood and money as speech, were simply invented by corporate-friendly Supreme Court rulings (in... 1819-86... for... personhood, and in 1976-2013... for money as speech). Their combined effect has been to hijack America's democratic experiment, concentrating power in the boardrooms of faceless corporations and the summer homes of reclusive billionaires.”
Thom Hartmann (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I didn’t know that you were into politics.” “Anyone with money has to be. Real money, I mean. Even criminals need to keep a politician in their pockets these days.”
Paul J. McAuley (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For the time bombs ticking and the heads they hang, All the gangs gettin' money and the heads they bang - bang. Wild mustangs, the porno flicks, All my homies in the county in cell block six. The grits when there ain't enough eggs to cook, And to D.B. Cooper and the money he took. You can look for answers but that ain't fun, Now get in the pit and try to love someone.”
Kid Rock (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s pretty sad that people think low Congressional staff pay is a good thing. Low pay a big reason why money in politics is a problem - you can make a lot more money becoming a lobbyist & setting up a relationship w/ one, since the actual job doesn’t pay enough.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One should not comment on the actual motivating factor of the whole expedition, for if we were completely honest it is greed [Geldgier] which has encouraged us to cut into the big Chinese cake. We wanted to earn money, build railways, run mines, bring European culture, that means in one word, earn money. In this we are not an ounce better than the English in the Transvaal.”
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (1848–1916) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to his wife (11 July 1900), quoted in Annika Mombauer & ‎Wilhelm Deist, The Kaiser: New Research on Wilhelm II's Role in Imperial Germany, p. 97
“Everyone can do it. It's not just me. It's not how much money you make that matters, but how you use your money.”
Chen Shu-chu (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I feel I owe people a lot. I feel I have to make more money to help others. I feel very happy after donating money. I feel like I've done something right. It's a feeling that comes from the inside. It makes me so happy that I smile when I go to bed.”
Chen Shu-chu (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The country is run by corporate America, particularly the military-industrial complex, the medical-industrial complex, and we do nothing about it. Look at this election and it’s all money. Follow the money, and you’ll find out what you’re going to get in the way of leadership”
Mike Gravel (1930–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Totally. I think it's abominable that they go out and do these raids, separate families. (Applause.) Stop and think -- all these people want to do is earn enough money to feed their families, whether they send them money back home or they bring their families here. If we made it easier for them to go back and forth on the borders, you wouldn't have this problem.”
Mike Gravel (1930–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've advocated, people, follow the money if you want to find out what's going to happen after any one of these individuals are elected. Follow the money, because it's politics as usual is what you're seeing.”
Mike Gravel (1930–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Doing variety shows is to make money, and the ultimate goal of making money is to return to making music.”
Joker Xue (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are not going to give you money [while] you’re sitting at home every day doing nothing. We must give you jobs [and] we must give you money, because when you work you develop self-respect and dignity”
Mosiuoa Lekota (1948–2026) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: During his 2019 election campaign as published by ENCA on 3 May 2019
“The details of wasted money spent on the Garden Bridge project is the final confirmation of the utter folly of the project. The Garden Bridge Trust have squandered public money in a way no responsible charity should have behaved. No charity needs to spend £160,000 on a website or over £400,000 on a gala dinner.”
Caroline Pidgeon (born 1972) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Failed London Garden Bridge project cost £53m, BBC News, 13 February 2019
“When in doubt, follow the money trail. People could lie, motives could be disguised, even acts could be misunderstood. Money was as constant as human nature.”
Charles Sheffield (1935–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whosoever is miserly with the gift of his knowledge deserves more blame than whosoever is miserly with his money, because the man miserly with his money fears exhausting what he has, but the one miserly with his science is with an object which does not become exhausted with use, and that he would lose nothing in sharing it.”
Ibn Hazm (994–1064) said by 1064 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I began to experience the most powerful advantage of money: the ability to think of things besides money.”
Tara Westover (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What shocks me about the issue of immigration is that globally, capital has no borders. Money goes wherever money wants to go. There are no borders, no laws, nothing, for the capitalists. And yet, for labor, for the workers, there are fences, electrified fences and bullets.”
Isabel Allende (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now when we first tried to get this plan passed, many of the growers were very upset about it. They said you have to go through an insurance company. We are very lucky that César Chávez is a grammar-school dropout and he hasn't been educated to think that insurance is a way of life. He said he wasn't going to give any of his money to an insurance company, any of the workers' money.”
Dolores Huerta (born 1930) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On New Year's Day, 1939, while Trinidadians who had money or hopes of winning money were attending the races in the Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain, a number of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution in Europe landed on the island.”
Sam Selvon (1923–1994) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: beginning of A Brighter Sun (1952 novel)
“Cultural products that present people who have no money or power as innately stupid or depraved, and thus unworthy of money or power, are in the interests of the ruling class and the power structure as it stands.”
Meredith Tax (1942–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I had not made the money, someone else would have done so. Not one of those unfortunate creatures would have been any better off and I should have lost money.”
Eric Ambler (1909–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That hotel... in Trump organization filings had predicted would lose money in its first year, is making money hand over fist. ...They're taking in at the bar, $68,000 a night. ...If you want something from the Trump administration, what he made clear, is "You will pay me tribute." You'll sign up to join , where he doubled the admission price.”
David Cay Johnston (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The air bit into your lungs because it was filled with poisonous gas escaping from the refineries. That sting in the air which made breathing so hard and unpleasant and choked your throat constantly meant that people were making money–much money.”
B. Traven (1882–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source