In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it’s the energy by which everything is driven. It’s the oil in the engine. – Rick Santelli
Within a few months in 2008, household finances were crushed as asset values fell, millions of jobs were lost, countless credit cards were canceled, and thousands of homes were foreclosed on. – Roger Altman
The president has very little effect on the economy. If you want to put blame or credit, the main person who influences the business cycle is the head of the Federal Reserve Bank. – Robert Fogel
The Republican Party is a much bigger tent than people give it credit for. We have a lot of what I guess you all call moderate Republicans. – Rudy Giuliani
And then you might decide that the country can just spend maybe years or decades to regain that credit, or maybe give that county the support, the financial support that the market is not willing not do. – Rodrigo Rato
Regardless of what our national credit rating is, people will always want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, fuel for their cars, and clothes on their backs. – Robert Kiyosaki
Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled – trapped in a hotel that we couldn’t check out of because we had no money to check out. – Renny Harlin
It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches. – Robert M. Hutchins
Every now and then, someone comes along – we used to call it ‘New Jack’ – tries to do something new, tries to take all the credit, without acknowledging the past. – Savion Glover
Liberals get credit for good intentions, and that’s about it, because everything they do fails. – Rush Limbaugh
I always enjoyed participating in artistic endeavors, and I remember in high school participating in chorus, drama and singing madrigals, mainly because they were an easy A. I loved being in plays and musicals too, but you didn’t really get credit for those. – Roger Bart
A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank. – Ron Paul
Typically, students slide into debt through the extension (by credit card companies) of unaffordable credit lines. – Robert Manning
I’m definitely guilty of thinking something is funny but thinking the audience won’t. Then three years later I will finally try it and it’ll kill them. I got to give them more credit. – Ron White
When I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday she’d pay a little toward the purchase. – Robert Kiyosaki
I have too many credit cards. You know what happened? Someone stole one and I didn’t notice. I noticed when I got that bill. Whoa! It was so much less! I’m letting him keep it. I’m saving money! – Rita Rudner
Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores. – Quincy Jones
Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, ‘toxic’ financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them. – Richard Dooling
Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don’t have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father. – Sarah Michelle Gellar
I don’t know how much credit I can take for ‘Walker, Texas Ranger,’ because I only worked on it for three weeks. I re-wrote the pilot, and then my name was on it forever. – Paul Haggis
Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil. – Robert Gottlieb
The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order. – Rebecca MacKinnon
Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009. – Ron Fournier