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  • Mikhail Khodorkovsky on finance

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    “Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.” -Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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  • Arlie Russell Hochschild on finance

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    “The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us.” -Arlie Russell

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  • Ben Nelson on finance

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    “I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.” -Ben Nelson

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  • Mathias Rust on finance

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    “I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.” -Mathias Rust

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  • Steve Israel on finance

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    “As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today’s workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.” -Steve Israel

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  • Mark Rydell on finance

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    “It’s very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it’s oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.” -Mark Rydell

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  • John Hurt on finance

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    “I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.” -John Hurt

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  • Ehud Barak on finance

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    “I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.” -Ehud Barak

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  • Peer Steinbruck on finance

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    “Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used

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  • Joely Richardson on finance

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    “Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there’s a huge number of people up for them. I’m not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film.” -Joely Richardson

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  • Elena Kagan on finance

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    “In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.” -Elena Kagan

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  • Helen Fielding on finance

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    “I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing ‘Bridget Jones’ to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.” -Helen Fielding

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  • Marcy Kaptur on finance

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    “We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.” -Marcy Kaptur

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  • Andrew Lo on finance

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    “While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.” -Andrew Lo

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  • Tom Daschle on finance

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    “We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.” -Tom Daschle

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  • James L. Buckley on finance

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    “What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.” -James L. Buckley

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  • Wolfgang Schauble on finance

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    “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

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  • Merton Miller on finance

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    “Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.” -Merton Miller

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  • Jim Hightower on finance

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    “There’s enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level – everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.” -Jim Hightower

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  • Gray Davis on finance

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    “We’ll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we’ll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don’t have today.” -Gray Davis

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  • John Rawls on finance

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    “In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.” -John Rawls

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  • Sherrod Brown on finance

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    “We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.” -Sherrod Brown

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  • Olympia Snowe on finance

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    “Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing – and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.” -Olympia Snowe

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  • David Dinkins on finance

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    “The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.” -David Dinkins

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  • William Greider on finance

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    “If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.” -William Greider

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