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 1, 2026

These Trump Accounts are the most successful program launch in government history. We’ve seen seven million families sign up for them; we’re going to get to open enrollment and we will have 70 million families who have signed up for this.

whitehouse.gov
Aug 1, 2026

Core inflation is low. Consumer confidence is strong. We have the highest consumer confidence — it came out today — in five months.

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Aug 1, 2026

The Working Families Tax Cuts — which, I will add, every Democrat voted against, every Democrat voted against — it is the perfect barbell for this economy. On one side, you have full expensing for factories, for equipment, for farm…

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Jul 31, 2026

I emphasized that we expect Beijing to fully meet its commitments on rare earths and U.S. agricultural products.

japantimes.co.jp
Jul 29, 2026

Fighting fraud is a core national security and taxpayer protection mission for Treasury.

foxnews.com
Jul 29, 2026

We are going to offer whistleblower payments to anyone who wants to tell us the who, what, when, where and how this fraud and money laundering occurred.

foxnews.com
Jul 29, 2026

President Trump has been clear that Americans have a right to know that their tax dollars are not being diverted to fund acts of global terror or to fund luxury cars for fraudsters.

foxnews.com
Jul 29, 2026

Whistleblowers play a critical role in protecting the integrity of our financial system.

foxnews.com
Jul 24, 2026

Thank you, @POTUS, for standing up for free and fair elections. Americans deserve confidence in the integrity of our elections, and that is vital for our country.

whitehouse.gov
Jul 23, 2026

We support open-source AI and the innovation it unlocks. But open source is not open season on American IP.

bbc.co.uk
Jul 17, 2026

At President Trump’s direction, Treasury is expanding its efforts to identify organizations that abuse charitable and nonprofit structures as vehicles for illicit finance. We are examining where tax-exempt status has been exploited, where…

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Jul 17, 2026

We will identify illicit funding, however artfully it is concealed. We will dismantle the networks that sustain political terrorism, however respectable their fronts may be. We will pursue those who enable political violence, however…

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