“My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.”
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“I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.”
“Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 to call a European constitution.”
“I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.”
“I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.”
“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.”
“Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.”
“Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.”
“Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.”
“Well, first let me say that I think health care reform is important. It has to be a priority. And our system is broken. The Finance Committee bill is the best effort yet, due in large measure to the efforts of my colleague, Olympia Snowe, but it's not there yet. It falls short.”
“I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.”
“To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.”
“Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services.”
“I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.”
“Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.”
“Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.”