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For Randy Neugebauer, the Texas Republican who chairs the investigations subcommittee, the top sources of funding for his 2012 reelection campaign are from the insurance, banking, finance, securities and real estate industries.

To finance deficits, the government must sell bonds to investors, competing for capital that could otherwise be used to invest in stocks or corporate bonds. Government borrowings raise long-term interest rates, stifling economic growth.

Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance.

I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.

African runners regularly work out in the United States and Europe, and the International Olympic Committee sends some of the cash from the Games to Olympic committees in poor nations, which use the money to finance their own programs.

Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy.

The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.

I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.

As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance reform, nothing is going to change.

I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance.

Where are the jobs going to come from? Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

How grateful I am for the law of tithing. It is the Lord's law of finance.

My most difficult class at Harvard Business School would have to be finance.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Without industry, finance and government consciously and collaboratively ensuring that capital flows to where it is needed in order to ensure the scaling up of climate change solutions, whatever deal is agreed risks never being realised.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student.

I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.

The people who don't know personal finance have TV shows about it.

Unlocking the equity in your private property can be one of the best ways to finance the buying of a new business...

We are seeing a perfect example of how campaign finance laws are regulating the First Amendment out of existence. The idea that I cannot talk about Initiative 912 in the last two and a half weeks of the campaign, which are the most pivotal, is just outrageous.

We are pleased to welcome Fred to our board and look forward to benefiting from his knowledge and experience. Fred's global view as well as his background in finance will prove invaluable to the company.

We stand to gain up to several thousand more jobs at the Defense Finance and Accounting Service center, ... and the commission listened to our recommendations for Crane and saved half of the jobs that were recommended for transfer elsewhere.

When we were fundraising to go down to the Detroit area, we figured we had to raise $10,000 to $15,000 to finance the trip. It's four nights in a hotel plus all the means.

.We got to the point of identifying the value of the debt in 2003/2004, entered into four-way discussions - Ministry of Finance and Planning, Ministry of Justice, the university and the law school - to agree on the debt. The Ministry of Finance then proposed a payment plan to clear the debt and that's the plan we are working with.

Years ago we always took our best clinicians out of the lab and put them into administrative positions, which removed all the good ones from the clinics. They weren't really trained to handle personnel and finance issues though.

Yahoo is in everything from pets to old people to finance to communications to e-commerce and more, and I really thrive on that.

Seth [Rogen] and Evan [Goldberg] finally convinced a company to finance the film [ Sausage Party] and Sony to distribute it.

With this first initiative from the Finance Committee - and there will be more in other areas where we have jurisdiction - we want the victims through all of the affected areas to know that they can count on us to create a set of measures that will return vitality and vigor to the Gulf region.

I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.

We have seen a recklessness in the management of state government and finance that has been unprecedented.

Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently...recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.

Nobody beats the market, they say. Except for those of those of us who do.

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

It is easier to disrupt consumer finance. It is much harder to disrupt institutional finance, Wall Street. It is very heavily regulated, and because it is institutional finance, you are dealing with incumbents.

They can buy whatever brand they want. We will supply the finance.

What we need are financial institutions to finance the project, not a group of contractors that eventually ask for funds from other institutions.

There is a reluctance to push the euro/dollar higher because of riots in France and pressure from euro zone finance ministers not to raise rates.

We decided to take advantage of the incentive and we chose to use the proceeds to finance several acquisitions in the U.S., our largest and most important market.

We hear all the time that people don't really realize how much they spend on gas or maintenance. If you start keeping track of all that -- and the finance charges and your registration -- it's remarkable.

Yesterday's quarterly survey by the Ministry of Finance supports our view that any improvement in business sentiment stalled in the March quarter but this was largely due to a reaction to accelerated growth in the previous quarter.

The problem with the big issues, Social Security reform, campaign finance reform, fundamental tax reform, is that they are so politically dangerous that I think both sides want to avoid them.

There is no doubt the government will have to borrow to finance the salaries and this is destructive economically.

There is no doubt that our demand for the Finance Ministry is a legitimate one and part of our world view.

We have a robust trade surplus and, thus, low vulnerability; the country risk premium is declining, despite the fact that a new minister of Finance has just assumed command; and long-term interest rates, which might indicate some change in the international market, continue to fall.

We have approached a point where we need to consider a gradual change in monetary policy. We share this view with the Finance Ministry. Monetary policy is based on economic growth, consumer prices and allocation of resources. The perception that the central bank would not raise interest rates had been prevalent, so I needed to send a signal not to shock the markets.

We are taking this step to secure permanent capital to grow; to share ownership broadly among our employees now and through future compensation; and to permit us to use publicly traded securities to finance strategic acquisitions that we may elect to make in the future.

We regularly help people with poor credit find both the home they need and the credit repair assistance necessary to finance the purchase in the future. We have investors and a rent to own program, both of which can help you purchase a home and rebuild your credit. If someone can afford a house payment and has some money for a down payment, but just needs help qualifying for the mortgage, we can help. We have homes that are ready to move into through our lease to own program.

There are two ways of looking at campaign finance,

Good things that cannot be calculated or quantified are set in motion in your life and in your finances when you give.

Debt has become a part of who we are.

When this deal first surfaced late Thursday, the business community was just shocked. Instantly, if not rather simultaneously, people started making calls to the Senate leadership, to the staff of the Senate Finance Committee. It was the wholesalers, the manufacturers, the mass retailers.

We want to make sure we do this right and not rush through it. It won't leave my Finance Committee $100 million out of balance.

The plans this year are for me to finish the script that I'm working on and to finance and direct the live action Spawn movie myself.

Many banks and independent finance companies have abandoned new-vehicle leases because their residual exposure was too great.

She told me it was time for me to quit my job and follow her. She transferred to Indianapolis and we lived there over 15 years. We both worked at the Army Finance Center there.

Some companies would rather not implement a system until they have their entire records management strategy identified, so they can apply different retention periods to different things, like a message from finance vs. a lunch invitation. Very few companies are prepared to roll out an enterprise-wide message categorization and retention program. Most companies realize that using an archive system doesn't lock them into anything, but it does give them the ability to see what they have.

Some areas are stronger than others, such as accounting, finance, marketing and sales. But most areas are up overall.

Six or eight years ago most people in the world couldn't access housing finance. That's no longer the case today and it's due to growth in India, China and other places like Ireland.

Mr. Martin, whose role as finance minister did not involve him in the supervision of spending by the PMO or (Public Works) is entitled, like other ministers in the Quebec caucus, to be exonerated from any blame for carelessness or misconduct.

Movaris' customers require technology to automate tens, to hundreds of thousands of control activities across multiple worldwide business units and manage large volumes of changes in those activities. Certainty delivers broad Financial Control Management functionality to automate the day-to-day work performed in finance organizations, such as enforcing corporate policies, GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles), Sarbanes-Oxley, and other regulations.

Motorcycle sales are gaining momentum in India as individuals consider that the main mode of transport, ... Incomes are on the rise, finance is available everywhere and that helps a motorcycle purchase.

McCain wants to make the GOP move in the direction of his issues, particularly campaign finance reform. There are two issues he'll squabble with Republican leadership on. First is his bitterness toward Bush for the attack ads from South Carolina on. Second, he can make the issue that he drew new voters into the party, and that the party will have to incorporate his platform if it wants to keep those voters.

One solution is to search world markets for cheaper entry-level vehicles, with China an obvious possibility. The industry should also continue to explore innovative vehicle finance packages to allow more people to enter the market.

Nothing concrete came out of the talks as the finance ministry is not interested in settling it. No other conciliatory talks are planned at this stage.

PG&E has been paying out tremendous amounts of dollars for power costs to out of state generators and we have undercollected over seven -- nearly seven -- billion dollars compared to what our ratepayers are paying. And for our financial survival, we need simply to be able to finance the costs of that power,

Nippon Sheet Glass would have to raise money much larger than its market cap to finance the deal, and if you think about that, what they are doing is reckless.

One of the challenges for Islamic finance today is that it doesn't have international benchmarks.

I would attach a reasonably high probability that there will be a problem in the housing or finance markets that will test the next Fed chairman.

If we end up doing some kind of financing, we will probably finance both buildings together.

If we don't clean up our corrupt system of financing political campaigns, the people's agenda won't get done, ... Our loophole-ridden campaign finance system puts the special interests at the table, while locking moms, dads and kids out of the room.

If we can finance the parking garage, we can have greater density of development.

If they go so far as to make some sort of express deal, then all of a sudden it can become criminal. There's a lot of nodding and winking and that's why I say the entire campaign finance system we have is in some way a sort of organized, legalized bribery.

I don't believe that we can justify any war that we've been in since I can remember - World War II, we had President Bush's grandfather helping finance German industry. I think that we could have avoided war if there wasn't money involved. MacArthur provoked Korea and Vietnam was obviously engineered.

I'd always intended to make 'Far North' straight after 'The Warrior.' We had the rights to the short story, the script was in development, and I knew where I wanted to shoot it. It just took a long time getting the script together and raising the finance.

I am confident that top-tier performance is attainable in the near term. The retail bank has improved its performance at a rate faster than expected. Our corporate and specialty finance business continues to grow rapidly and also is performing above plan?We are entering the 21st century on very strong ground.

I bet it would stop some people in their shoes if they were expecting to put not much down payment into it. It would make fewer buyers qualify for the high end, and when it comes to the middle market it would make buyers think twice about how they would finance it.

I am therefore stepping aside as Minister of Finance and Chair of Management Board of Cabinet pending a resolution of this issue,

I applaud Malaysia's leadership in ratifying this important convention, which creates an international legal framework that will help attract finance to the aviation industry.

Ian is recognized as a leader in bringing together IT, finance and operations professionals to address critical Performance Management challenges including governance, process improvement and information technology. His proven sales leadership skills will help us achieve our revenue goals as we invest in the expansion of our research and services teams.

But we're trying to figure out if we run the sewer line how to best finance a reclaimed water route because in the long term, environmentally it would be a great thing to do.

Because tribes do not file campaign finance reports, it is not possible to compare or double-check the amounts received by candidates and reported on the candidates' campaign finance reports.

I have a lot of stands on a lot of political issues. I'm very big on campaign finance reform. I still think most Americans aren't aware of how the dumping of big corporate dollars and private donor dollars has totally corrupted the political system and taken it away from them.

Getting rid of the incompetence at the top. We're never going to address the school finance problems, health care issues, in any meaningful way if we don't change the leadership.

Frank brings to Microsoft great talent and skills both in finance and business leadership. His work in creating world-class Finance organizations and leadership in the finance community will build upon Microsoft's existing Finance talent and functional excellence.

For so many years, international finance has been the domain of a very small elite in a few countries. The message the G-8 leaders got from Seattle is that they need to make their policy discussions more relevant to the general public.

fully understand the campaign finance reporting law and to make sure we filed every report correctly.

If 2005 was the year of commitments, 2006 must be the year of delivery. That's why, when the G8 finance ministers meet in Moscow in only a few days time, I will put on the agenda how we can meet the commitments to fund this specific plan.

I encourage you to fulfill your oath, abide by statutory obligations, and pursue an investigation into the administration's possible campaign finance abuses, as you see fit.

For most states in the region, unemployment rates moved lower and job growth higher as manufacturers, finance firms and energy providers details growth. However, telecommunications remained weak and construction cooled in January.

If we need a programmer, I just go down to engineering or the signals division. For marketing people, I go to the psychological operations division. There's a finance battalion where all the accountants work. And then, for just about any other job you might have, go to the infantry barracks ? those guys are trained to handle anything.

He will be with us for the foreseeable future. He's been convinced to stay on as EVP of finance.

He looks a very good player. The lad was neat and tidy and worked his socks off. Now I've got to think about the state of my club and whether we've got the finance and what we can do.

Whatever problems we have in our ministry, we have raised. Chidambaram was very kind and considerate. The Finance Ministry did agree to some of the points that we raised. So, we are discussing them again.

What I'm primarily responsible for is products. Everything is developed with my personal involvement. Second is client communication. Everything to do with product and consumer is my primary focus. I also deal with everything which relates to investment and partnership. Distribution, finance, administration, I don't do.

We are fully aware that the movement of finance is now globally subject to many inspections. I don't think the world can allow the entry of this type of money.