Financial Authority Quotes

Give me the power to issue a nation’s money; then I do not care who makes the laws.

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

The truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the Government of the United States. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks government at will.

The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - 'to spew out paper.'

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

Money talks, but it don't sing and dance, and it don't walk. And long as I can have you here with me, I'd much rather be, forever in blue jeans.

We, in a sense, are taking back Uncle Sam's checkbook.

The revenue of the state is the state.

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.

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 individual who signs the check has the ultimate power.

In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

The taxpayers have a right to say what shall be taught ... to direct or dismiss those whom they employ as teachers and school authorities .... The hand that writes the paycheck rules the school.

Money is one of the elements of sovereignty.

The power of the purse always prevails.

They called me Veto Corleone. Because I vetoed 2,500 separate line-items in the budget.

No one, however long they have held the post, lightly gives up the great office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. Certainly I did not.

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

The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.

I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money... but city and state governments cannot.

We've got our own power - the power of the purse.

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

We are one government. The Federal Reserve is not the foreign enemy.