“The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.”– Jean-Paul Sartre Related Quotes “I personally believe that there’s going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think there’s going to be a good case for that.”– Timothy Geithner “The economy is a very sensitive organism.”– Hjalmar Schacht “But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries.”– Martin Feldstein