I delivered lectures and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance both private equity and big venture capital funds.

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

It is usually people in the money business finance and international trade that are really rich.

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy things would have been a lot messier without it.

You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own by yourself and you have a TV network you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it I believe it will - this is how things go.

It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.

The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.

As sure as the spring will follow the winter prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.

I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.