Rahm Emanuel Quotes

This fundraising is consuming us. It's impossible to overstate, I think, what it's doing to members and their ability to just focus on the job that they were elected to do. The collective concentration of the institution is being undermined every day by the need to fund-raise.

Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?

The bottom line is, I hear my donors, I hear our base out there, I hear the leadership. And we're taking steps to make sure that we're even more - how shall we say it - fiscally conservative in our spending and certainly making sure the dollars are there when it's time to run our campaigns.

Budgets are not bottomless pits.

It is one thing to talk about fundraising and another to do it as a candidate, and I have learned so much about how much money it costs to run a campaign and what it means to raise money.

If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely - on a talented young comedy writer.

No matter how you look at it, one person cannot be evaluated and paid in isolation of budgets.

I don't have more money. I won't have more money than any of the candidates, even the Republican candidates. We know that already. But we are building this campaign team like I would build a business. And that is, we are building it so far with no debt.

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.

No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.

I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'

When you have a kid, money matters.

If you have debt I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.

Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a bad mood.

I never go overbudget on my movies.

You cannot go beyond a certain limit in your expenditure if you want to bring back money from your local market, which is very small after Pakistan.

I live like most of the people in my district: paycheck to paycheck.

There's a foot race between gas bills and paychecks.

These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.

I am still writing my own checks for more or less substantial amounts every week in order to squeeze by the weekend.

We have to make debt evil.

You have to pay the bills when you're a single mum.

When you have to earmark human and monetary resources for such a long time, it starts to hinder your other activities.