"In the long term, Germany didn't need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end." - Wolfgang SchaubleTweet
"It's not the having, it's the getting." - Charles SpurgeonTweet
"We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well." - Jeffrey SachsTweet
"A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health." - Clarence DayTweet
"Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them." - David RicardoTweet
"People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience." - Carol Moseley BraunTweet
"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money." - Albert CamusTweet
"The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals." - Adam SmithTweet
"Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film." - Joely RichardsonTweet
"The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people." - Jacques DelorsTweet