Howard Jacobson Quotes

Every time I've done a fund raiser, I've been blown away by the amount of money and the generosity that our fans have.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

It's not just the players, it's the culture. Sometimes it's the people around them; the people who are looking after them - the money they're given. Some of the families give up their jobs and live off their sons. That would never have happened 10 years ago.

I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.

For some reason, people think of me as someone who can do anything I want. And I'm not. You know, I need someone to put up the money.

Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.

Campaign contributors are operating vicariously through the power of their purse rather than through the power of their ideas.

They shouldn’t, sir. You sold your souls and you’re going to continue selling them. You can be very moral and righteous in asking me that question sir, but there is not one of you in this room that’s going to turn down any of our money. You’re going to take it. I can only offer it…. We want to put our materials on the bodies of your athletes and the best way to do it is to buy your schools or buy your coach.

Money is the mother's milk of everything, and it certainly is the mother's milk of politics.

The Saud family “worship money and spend it on palaces, not mosques.” If you accept what they say, they will make you rich. Otherwise, they will persecute and even torture you.

I don't think the approach is to simply give them [the Indian tribes] money, because too much money has disappeared in Indian country, too much has been mismanaged. The history of Indian country is the disappearance of money.

Without money no alliance can be executed.

Members of Congress like us for our information, but they love us for our money.

On Capitol Hill money doesn't talk. It bellows.

In a political contest, the use of some [money] is both right, and indispensable.

We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has impoverished the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it

Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

To a great extent, it is our money that is funding some of the problems with which we must cope.

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

The money power preys upon the Nation in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods, or throw light upon its crimes.

It was about a football program that brought in massive amounts of money. They're going to try to cover something up, because it's about money at the end of the day. That's clear. There's no ambiguity to that. Paterno is much more complicated and contradictory, and that's why he's interesting to me.

The game needs to be funded by sponsors, by members, by broadcasters. There needs to be a commercial relationship between the FFA and the people who supply the money so it is a natural alliance. Sport is not a charity.

All the politicians in Uganda play to their fundamentalist benefactors in America because of the flow of money.

Clubs shouldn't be counting on an owner just as a benefactor.

It is greed or financial difficulty that makes people fix matches, not gaining an edge over rivals, so it is different from say Lance Armstrong or Ben Johnson.