Bill Moyers Quotes

The $100 bill may be America's most successful export.

This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.

The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups.

Probably in 2035 we will pass that mantle on to China. It will be the biggest economy in the world, and it will go way past us and way past India. Given the growth, the size, the opportunities, I don't think there's any other place in the world that can match it.

Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.

So in terms of the global economic footprint, let's just say China within the next decade and a bit is likely to emerge as the world's largest economy. Obviously its foreign policy and security policy footprint increases and that creates both challenges and opportunities for us all.

The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.

People say money ain't nothing; money is basically everything.

I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.

What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

Whoever owns the means of credit controls the industrial life of the nation.

Bond traders now veto presidents.

Hegemony of the dollar.

The more money we have to throw around the better off we're going to be. I think this country doesn't understand its power around the world economically—its ability to buy friends.

Geo-economics may replace geo-politics as the driving force in international relations.

The United States’ economic preeminence is its own to lose.

The U.S. economy is the global economic driver. And within the U.S. economy, the U.S. consumer is the global driver.

If we don't set the rules for commerce in the Asia-Pacific region, China will.

Money has a language of its own.

Some of the people in finance touch enormous parts of the economy.

Whosoever has money has power. It's not about a label. If you have money tomorrow, you will be powerful.

Economics runs the world.

Financially, it's true that France does not have the same pulling power as England, Spain or Italy. But this is not the aspect that matters most to me.

The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.