In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

Unfortunately money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.

If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.

It is usually people in the money business finance and international trade that are really rich.

The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.

You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own by yourself and you have a TV network you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it I believe it will - this is how things go.

Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.

I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen there's about 50 people with producer credits so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.

I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.

As a novelist I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

Money is the best rule of commerce.

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

I made my money by selling too soon.

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing and if you are good enough at it the money will come.

Many people are in the dark when it comes to money and I'm going to turn on the lights.

We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

All money is a matter of belief.

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

Money was never a big motivation for me except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.