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
Aug 24, 2026

Those who stand with the United States will reap the rewards of our partnership. Those who tether themselves to the Iranian regime should expect to share in the isolation of a withering regime.

foreignpolicy.com
Aug 24, 2026

If you insist on doing business with them—either transferring money, buying oil, doing seaborne ship transport—then the US Treasury and the US government, they will put its full might and force towards enforcing against you.

reason.com
Aug 24, 2026

We want to make clear here today that no one is above the reach of U.S. sanctions.

npr.org
Aug 21, 2026

Working alongside our law enforcement partners, we will continue to disrupt the cartels' drug trafficking operations and protect our borders.

cbsnews.com
Aug 21, 2026

We are going to collapse this regime. It is time for our allies and the rest of the world to make a decision.

bbc.co.uk
Aug 21, 2026

You are either with us or against us.

bbc.co.uk
Aug 21, 2026

This is going to be the greatest coordinated economic isolation in the history of the world, and we are going to them and saying, you are either with us or against us.

washingtonexaminer.com
Aug 8, 2026

Every facilitator that keeps the regime afloat is putting a target on its own back.

cbsnews.com
Aug 7, 2026

We do not ask bankers to assume the burdens of border enforcement, but we depend on banks to do what you do best: know your customers, identify risks as they arise, and report suspicious patterns before they metastasize into criminal…

cbsnews.com
Aug 7, 2026

This administration will not tolerate blatant abuse of our financial system, nor will it permit risks posed by the extension of financial services to illegal aliens.

cbsnews.com
Aug 5, 2026

I think there is a chance we may have a deal today or tomorrow to open the Strait and move towards a more normalized position in this conflict.

cbsnews.com
Aug 3, 2026

We strongly support Japan's decisive market and monetary steps to correct the substantial undervaluation of the yen.

bbc.co.uk