Top 290 Treasury Quotes & Sayings

With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art.

I don't think you can have a better secretary of the Treasury than Hank Paulson.

I feel I've come home at the Treasury.

All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.

There is a limit to how much the United States Treasury can borrow.

Defaulting on the nation's debt would be cataclysmic. The U.S. Treasury's Aaa rating is the one constant in the world's financial system. When times are bad anywhere on the planet, global investors flock to Treasury bonds because they know they will get their money back.

I would have my secretary of treasury be in touch with the financial centers, not only here but at home.

Heaven - the treasury of everlasting life.

When the federal government settles a case, the settlement dollars should go to the victims or the Treasury - period.

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

The Fed is the major U.S. firefighter. It's not the Treasury. It's not the Congress. We certainly saw that vividly in 2008.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!

You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.

The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.

As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.

How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!

The Treasury has responsibility for increasing employment and productivity, ensuring strong growth and competitiveness across all regions of the U.K.

Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord.

Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

I still like TIPS (Treasury inflation-protected securities), and I think a big opportunity is coming in the municipal bond market.

It makes a difference who the treasury secretary is.

When 40 billion of treasury bills are sold like, seven day treasury bills, at a yield of 1/20th of one percent, that means the whole country is basically at the point virtually, or a lot of the country is at the point of putting the money under the mattress.

Maybe [the Republicans] 'll find ways around it, but the financial system of the world depends very heavily on the credibility of the US Treasury Department. US Treasury securities are what's called "good as gold"; they're the basis of international finance, and if the government can't uphold them, if they become valueless, the effect on the international financial system could be quite severe. But in order to destroy a limited health-care law, the right-wing Republicans, the reactionary Republicans, are willing to do that.

Confidence is key. You're not going to leave your money with me unless you're confident I'm going to give it back to you. And at this point, when treasury bills, seven day treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent, it's not because people want to earn 1/20th of one percent, it's because they trust the fact the treasury will give it back to them next week.

The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California.

The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.

Any central bank should only be in charge of liquidity. Solvency is a matter for the treasury.

The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.

You can't just, boopity-boop, saunter into the Treasury. You need an appointment.

The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law of nature, such as they interpreted it.

The Treasury has enough trouble with forecasts even when they are trying to get them right.

The more cash that builds up in the treasury, the greater the pressure to piss it away.

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.

As treasury secretary, I don't see it as my role commenting on the dollar in short-term movements.

No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.

No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.

One of the roles of the Treasury committee is to look under the bonnet of the financial services sector to shine a light on any of its shortcomings.

The sale of Treasury bonds, notes, and bills finances the U.S. government, and those securities are, in turn, a primary vehicle for savings for a wide range of U.S. households. Treasury securities are also an important source of collateral within the financial system.

Italian authorities seized $6 trillion worth of fake, worthless U.S. Treasury bonds. Pretty good counterfeit job, too. They look just like the genuine, worthless Treasury bonds.

I would say it's more important who the treasury secretary is than who the vice president is. If you want to have a debate here, I'd like a debate between potential treasury secretaries than the vice presidential debate.

In five years of my previous tenure, the treasury was never shut for one day.

The Treasury model of the economy has been pretty well wrong on everything for many years

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

That would be nice if [people] stuck [treasury bills] all under a mattress, but they got to buy something with them. Sometimes they buy a treasury note, sometimes they set up sovereign wealth funds. They can do all kinds of things. They can buy our companies here. As long as we consume more than we produce, and we trade away little pieces of the country daily, they're going to own something. Now, they can't run from American assets. I mean every day the rest of the world is going to have about two billion more of American assets than we have, as long as they sell us these goods.

Behind each biography there should always be a rich treasury of unformulated knowledge, a tapestry that has not been unrolled.

That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.

There's a treasury full of jade and jewels; It is in you. Don't go searching far from home for it-it's here.

The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has.

Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation.

At this point, when treasury bills, seven day treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent, it's not because people want to earn 1/20th of one percent, it's because they trust the fact the treasury will give it back to them next week.

That's the reality of what they're going to sell them to the Treasury for.

After I left Treasury, I think in some ways it was harder to sit there and be writing my book... listening to all the criticism.

Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.

Nothing brings more money to the Treasury of the United States, than investment in education of the American people.