Jay Leno Quotes

Governor Romney supported the bailout of Wall Street and decided not to support the bailout of Detroit.

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.

U.N. officials said today they desperately need $7 billion to help people cope with disasters, but they're having a hard time getting people to send rescue money. Here's what the UN should do: Invest in bad mortgages, run a bank into the ground, give yourself a bonus, get some spa treatments and, in no time, the government will send you $750 billion.

Government bailouts are like potato chips: You can't stop with just one.

I think there is need for economic stimulus... and government can help make that up in a very difficult time.

In the past six months, our federal government has devised a dozen strategies to save America's financial markets. Each plan has been more costly, more risky, and less aligned with the principles of our country's free market economy than the last. I am disappointed to say that this latest plan puts all the rest of them to shame.

And yet, if we don't, first and foremost, act responsibly with the national tax dollars that we have, we can't properly address those regional priorities that we would like to.

In the case of the Democrats' 2009 budget request, the statement of need could not have been articulated any clearer: We need more spending, historic new tax hikes, and greater control over the way American families live their lives.

And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid.

The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation where people will hold the American economy hostage in order to achieve a specific agenda - at least not until 2013. So we think that is incredibly important as a matter of economic good.

The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it.

Remember that every dollar spent by the federal government is spent in somebody's district.

Congress may spend money in aid of the "general welfare.

I'm a product of Federal spending.

No complicated scheme of relief, no plan for government fixing of prices, no resort to the Public Treasury will be of any value …

We bailed out the S&Ls. Why can't we bail out my city?

I never knew an instance of the English parliament's undertaking to relieve the poor, by a distribution of bread in time of scarcity.... I think, that according to the principles of their government, they would only vote a sum of money, and address the King to employ it for the best.

The International Monetary Fund is the doctor to sick economies.

Those who pay no taxes, disposing by their votes of other people's money, have every motive to be lavish and none to economize.

A national government has to be able to spend money in a recession to make up for the private money that is not being spent.

I think the bailouts in 2008 were wrong.

We need a massive investment in infrastructure in this country.

Can America continue down the path President Obama is taking us on, to a time soon and certain when a majority of wage-earners pay no income taxes but a majority of citizens receive federal benefits?

I opposed the bailout of banks and car companies.