“The revenues from the commemorative coins were just incredible and it prompted the Mint to come up with the idea for the statehood quarters. We are talking minting into the billions of coins. While the Mint doesn't make money on all the coins they do make money on the proof sets and the silver dollar proof sets. But more importantly, it introduced people to the Mint's Web site.”
Rusty Goe
“It's a commemoration ... and there's a lot to commemorate. We built a city that can stand up to any city in the world. There's nowhere like San Francisco. You can be anyone in the world and feel like you fit in here.”
Taren Sapienza
“Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint”
Don Marquis
“Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.”
Billy Connolly
“The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.”
Evan Esar
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.”
Bible
“We are here to commemorate the fascists who died,”
Benito Mussolini
