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 · 2023–2026342 total · peak 2025 (212)
2023: 2 quotes2025: 212 quotes2026: 128 quotes
Oct 26, 2025

This is a Democratic-led boycott, and I'm just not sure what they're doing.

cbsnews.com
Oct 26, 2025

It's a global embarrassment what these Democratic senators are doing, keeping the government shut down.

cbsnews.com
Oct 23, 2025

Now is the time to stop the killing and for an immediate cease-fire.

nypost.com
Oct 22, 2025

Now is the time to stop the killing and for an immediate cease-fire.

nypost.com
Oct 15, 2025

We do have to be very careful not to overreach.

cnbc.com
Oct 15, 2025

I wouldn’t be surprised.

cnbc.com
Oct 15, 2025

So we’re going to set price floors and the forward buying to make sure that this doesn’t happen again and we’re going to do it across a range of industries.

cnbc.com
Oct 15, 2025

When you are facing a nonmarket economy like China, then you have to exercise industrial policy.

cnbc.com
Oct 15, 2025

That report is terrible, accusing the newspaper of taking CCP dictation.

cnbc.com
Oct 15, 2025

We will negotiate because we are doing what is best economically for the U.S.

cnbc.com
Oct 15, 2025

We won’t negotiate because the stock market is going down

cnbc.com