Political Quotes

Scott Bessent

The Public Record

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in the Trump administration; hedge-fund manager and founder of Key Square Group.

Quotes by year · 20232026310 total · peak 2025 (212)
2023: 2 quotes2025: 212 quotes2026: 96 quotes
Oct 13, 2025

This is China versus the world — they have pointed a bazooka at the supply chains and the industrial base of the entire free world, and we’re not going to have it.

nypost.com
Oct 13, 2025

He will be meeting with party chair Xi in Korea — I believe that meeting will still be on.

nypost.com
Oct 10, 2025

U.S. Treasury is prepared, immediately, to take whatever exceptional measures are warranted to provide stability to markets.

nbcnews.com
Oct 9, 2025

U.S. Treasury is prepared, immediately, to take whatever exceptional measures are warranted to provide stability to markets.

apnews.com
Oct 2, 2025

The American people are being held hostage by Chuck Schumer’s poll numbers.

nypost.com
Oct 2, 2025

If they want to shut the government down, then there are ramifications.

nypost.com
Oct 2, 2025

This isn't the way to have a discussion, shutting down the government and lowering the GDP.

cnbc.com
Oct 2, 2025

We could see a hit to the GDP, a hit to growth and a hit to working America.

cnbc.com
Oct 2, 2025

Sen. [Chuck] Schumer, Rep. [Hakeem] Jeffries, you know, they're weak, they're discombobulated.

cnbc.com
Oct 2, 2025

They don't represent the American people, and you know they're making up excuses.

cnbc.com
Oct 2, 2025

This isn’t the way to have a discussion, shutting down the government and lowering the GDP.

nypost.com
Oct 2, 2025

The Democrats want to negotiate like terrorists.

nypost.com