Family Finance Quotes

We need to simplify the tax code to reward Americans for working hard, investing, saving - and allow families to keep more of their own money.

Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a budget. Every local government, every state, knows they have to do a budget.

If a man, after having promised, either verbally or in writing, a certain dowry to his daughter, loses part of his property, he can give his daughter a dowry in accordance with the property as it is now, and neither father-in-law nor son-in-law shall go to law on that account.

The childcare tax credit makes some sense.

Well, isn't every successful person in every family the bankbook?

Consumerism is the reason Christmas has morphed into a hollow shopping ritual that leaves too many families with debt hangovers and an empty feeling inside.

We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels.

Daddy pays for the water, daddy pays for the gas, daddy pays for the electricity, and if daddy didn't pay for the electricity, he'd pay for the candle on your nightstand, so you can study for the big test tomorrow.

Get out of debt. In a world of stagnant incomes and rising core expenses like mortgage and health care costs, that's a lot easier said than done. The middle class is under enormous pressure. But families can stop the bleeding by reducing their reliance on debt wherever they can. They can also start fighting back by taking a hard look at whom they do business with and rethinking whether they want tricks-and-traps banks to hold their money. They can also demand that public officials take the side of families over the side of banks.

I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!

The Democrats want government to do the spending. Senator McCain wants families to do the spending.

When we save, everybody in the household is just suffering. By having the coin in a visible way, when you scratch, you can say the person that is in charge of the making money for the family is doing the right thing.

One of the things I always tell people when they're going to get married is, in order to have a lasting relationship, there are a couple of things you need to discuss. One is finance, obviously. Then there's religion, politics, kids, how you discipline kids, and how many kids you want to have.

My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. Oh my God, they're $4 million in the hole.

My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan.

My mom could afford to put us in a Catholic school for grades one through seven, but not after that.

When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be.

My position has been consistent that middle class families should not pay more taxes. That hasn't changed.

Donald Trump have proposed an approach that has a $4 billion tax benefit for your family.

Families out there know that if they get in trouble and they've spent up a bunch of money and they've borrowed and they are up to hock to their necks, the thing they've got to do is start paying off what they owe and cut back their spending.

My father was horrified by my movies, yet he lent me the money to make the early ones. And I paid him back with interest.

As long as you're a tax deduction, you'll always be safe in my house.

My wife bought an extra life insurance policy on me.