But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.

You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that.

My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that.

It is not secret here in Congress we have not had the discipline in many instances to keep our hands out of the cookie jar of Social Security. Now to stop this I propose that in the future that Congress cannot get its hands on the money in the first place.