“Unfortunately, we have a system today that allows politicians to buy things for other people using money that doesn't come out of their own pocket.”

Rupert on the Issues (2011)

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American mentor, television personality, and politician 1964

Dave Ramsey (1960) American financial advisor

Source: The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

“It will be discovered that a system of exchange between peoples of goods and services will, when intelligently developed, gradually cancel out the need for buying and selling with money.”

Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist

Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter VII The Council for Economics

“Unfortunately politicians are not very sound people or they wouldn't be politicians.”

Jim Rogers (1942) American writer

Jim Rogers quizzed on euro, Greece bailout, EU future (time:4:50) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZrLlFyPZ-Y

“Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“She reached into her coat pocket and felt two things she hadn't expected…. One was a wad of cash… she brought out the money. Leo whistled. "Allowance? Piper, your mom rocks!”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

“That the only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in their keeping their money in their own pockets, until they have assurances, perfectly satisfactory to themselves, that it will be used as they wish it to be used, for their benefit, and not for their injury.”

Lysander Spooner book No Treason

No Treason (1867–1870), No. VI: The Constitution of No Authority

“The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Americanism: Using money you haven’t earned to buy things you don’t need to impress people you don’t like.”

Robert Quillen (1887–1948) American journalist

Paragraphs by Robert Quillen, Detroit Free Press, 4 June 1928. (via Newspapers.com)

“[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.”

Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician

“Unfortunately, we have a system today that allows politicians to buy things for other people using money that doesn't come out of their own pocket.”

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