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
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

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

cbsnews.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
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.

whitehouse.gov
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…

whitehouse.gov
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