Taking in money, banks were like industrial vacuum…

“Taking in money, banks were like industrial vacuum cleaners. Giving it out, they were clogged faucets”

— Dean Koontz

“Banks are like the economy’s circulatory system, as vital to its everyday functioning as the power grid.”

— Timothy F. Geithner

Cash like Johnny, Banks like Ashley

— Drake

“but in the city in which I love you, no one comes, no one meets me in the brick clefts; in the wedged dark,…

— Li-Young Lee

“One of these days the entire Western world will grind to a halt, its apparatus clogged with forms, files and memoranda.”

— R.F. Delderfield

One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything.

— Daniel Handler

We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out.

— Peter Weiss

“[He] starts to talk and stops, feeling his way, as if it's all clogged up rusty inside.”

— Nikki Gemmell

“Fear flushes clogged pores of perception.”

— Ralph Keyes

“The drains are clogged with strangled embryos.”

— Henry Miller

My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Ever notice how the same politicians who claim to be against trickle-down economics have no problem bailing out banks and other politically connected businesses?”

— Colin M. McGroarty

We now have power under the Dodd-Frank legislation to break up banks. And I've said I will use that power if they pose a…

— Hillary Clinton

What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is…

— Warren Stephens