Marlene Dietrich Quotes
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
Dietrich, Marlene. Marlene Dietrich's ABC. Doubleday, 1962.
Likely misattributed. The phrase was popularized by the writer Orville Schell in "To Get Rich Is Glorious: China in the '80s" (1984) but Schell never actually attributed the words to Deng, telling the L.A. Times's Evelyn Iritani in 2004 that it merely "grew out of the zeitgeist" of China's economic reforms.
The sense of the word affair is the general purpose, and Smith was referring to the fact when he investigated any proposed or implemented public scheme or law, there was an objective of someone obtaining money as a consequence. As journalists say in covering politics, “follow the money.”
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich was a German-born American actress and singer. Her career spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s.