Finance Minister Quotes

#1. The government that came into power after the April 1994 elections was going to need a budget. It was drafted by our finance minister, Derek Keys, and he convinced them of the necessity to stay within the free-market principles that had been in force in South Africa for decades.

F. W. De Klerk

#2. Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#3. Mr. Anwar is a respected colleague and a man of integrity, who in his capacity as finance minister showed strong dedication to enhancing the financial well-being of the Malaysian people,

Paul Martin

#4. There just needs to be a gay rapper who's better than everybody. That's when that question will no longer be able to be asked.

Talib Kweli

#5. Even if love doesn't stay, be thankful for the visit.

Carlos Salinas

#6. In 1891 the Brazilian Minister of Finance decreed the abolition of history; he ordered the destruction of every document which dealt in any way with slavery or the slave trade; a nation-wide burning of the books.

Manu Herbstein

#7. That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. We can only solve our biggest problems if we come together and embrace the freedoms that our Founding Fathers established right here in Philadelphia, which permitted our ancestors to create the great American exceptionalism that all of us now enjoy.

Michael Bloomberg

#9. In the long term, Germany didn't need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end.

Wolfgang Schauble

#10. I remember my first meeting with my management team when I became Indonesia's Minister of Finance. I was the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold that job. Everybody else in the room was male. I knew then that I had to work harder than any man to prove to them that I was capable.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#11. Climate change: It's here. If we don't react, war, pestilence and famine will follow close behind

Rajendra K. Pachauri

#12. I have a theory ... Theatre actors are better at auditions than film actors.

Shaun Sipos

#13. You must be able to communicate properly with the people you want to minister to

Sunday Adelaja

#14. Pope Benedict XVI was the first to predict the crisis in the global financial system ... Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti said.

Michael Lewis

#15. I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

Shimon Peres

#16. Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.

Edmund Phelps

#17. As minister of finance, Mr. Flaherty served his country with dedication and conviction, even as he faced mounting health challenges. As both a man and a politician, I will remember him for his pleasant demeanour and strength of character.

Thomas Mulcair

#18. Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. - SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE

Michelle Moran

#19. To me all palaces are preposterous, a tasteless, dreary expression of ostentation.

Charlie Chaplin

#20. TITUS. Hail, Rome, victorious in thy mourning weeds!

William Shakespeare

#21. You have to discover the needs of the people you want to minister to

Sunday Adelaja

#22. I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country

Yanis Varoufakis

#23. To fully carry out your purpose as believers, you have to discover where the people you want to minister to are

Sunday Adelaja

#24. I almost can't believe I'm going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships don't last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine.

Megan McCafferty

#25. I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating.

Count Basie

#26. The upperclassman hands over a third pail. "Throw it," commands Bastian. The night steams, the stars burn, the prisoner sways, the boys watch, the commandant tilts his head. Frederick pours the water onto the ground. "I will not.

Anthony Doerr