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
Sep 5, 2026

Financial institutions continue to find out the hard way that we are serious about Operation Economic Outcast.

dailycaller.com
Sep 4, 2026

Real wages are up $1,000… the bottom 25% of wage earners, just like in your first term, are outperforming the top 25%… In the past year, that group had wage increases of 5.5% — three times what the top end has done.

whitehouse.gov
Sep 4, 2026

Everyone in this audience and every news outlet should be ashamed for publishing that, taking a lying regime at face value.

huffpost.com
Sep 4, 2026

One of the best allies that the Iranians have on this is the media because the media immediately publishes all the lies that they say.

huffpost.com
Sep 4, 2026

Schools rebranding race-based preferences as equitable, inclusive, or diversity-enhancing does not change their discriminatory nature,

foxnews.com
Sep 3, 2026

The only way for us to get out of this is to grow our way out of it.

reason.com
Sep 3, 2026

The world is awash in debt.

reason.com
Sep 1, 2026

The U.S. bond market has been the best performing market since the president came in.

foreignpolicy.com
Sep 1, 2026

The world is awash in debt, and the only way for us to get out of this is to grow our way out of this.

npr.org
Sep 1, 2026

Carney came to power on an anti-American, anti-Trump agenda. He was 20 points behind in the polls, and then he started this.

nationalpost.com
Sep 1, 2026

I don’t think you can be in a tit-for-tat with someone who’s 13 times larger than you are.

globalnews.ca