William E. Gladstone Quotes

It is the policy of the federal government to use all resources at its disposal to make our financial system stronger.

Instead, there were a variety of controls of which some could be influenced by bankers, some could be influenced by the government, and some could hardly be influenced by either.

What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks.

All legislation looking to the perpetuation of our national debt, and of the national-banking system which feeds and fattens upon it, should be universally discouraged and denounced as a crime against the people, and all laws looking to their existence should be immediately repealed.

The question of how to structure our nation's financial system arose in the early years of the republic.

When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legalized.

We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its predecessors, will face up to economic realities.

And as a matter of fact, governments don't act, governments only react. The bankers make the decisions, and then governments decide how are we going to adjust to this. Government can't do anything unless the bank gives them the money to do it.

The revival of the U.S. financial system after the crash of 2008 is arguably the Obama administration's biggest domestic policy success.

A single currency entails a fixed interest rate, which means countries can't manage their own currency to suit their own needs. You need a variety of institutions to help nations for which the policies aren't well suited. Europe introduced the euro without providing those structures.

The idea that we're going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly, I feel like one of the big problems we have is that, because Democrats don't have a deep understanding of or degrees in economics, they allow Wall Street folks to roll in the door and think that they're giving them an education.

The Treasury Department has a critical role to play in helping to set the direction of a U.S. and global economy, a role that reaches back to America's founding.

The few emerging economies that have avoided booms and busts have done so by adhering to sound policy frameworks.

We've got the power of the purse in the Congress.

The main long-run contribution monetary policy can make is to provide a stable macroeconomic and financial environment.

Daniel Tarullo has more power of the U.S. banking system than anybody since Alexander Hamilton. That's not an exaggeration, by the way.

I believe that being in a position, as a central bank, to influence economic growth does not mean losing independence.

Everyone who votes for us will know that a Northern League government would get rid of the euro and move back to a national currency.

Money ... is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the unit of all accounts, the state will then be in a position to dominate the entire economic system, and the whole society.

I did not criticize the Central Bank's position.

The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper.

If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would come up with is the United States government.

If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government.

The New York Federal Reserve is a tool of the big banks.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.