Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what…

As we enter the 21st Century it is clear that we have entered an unprecedented global age in which our diverse cultures, religions, philosophies,…

— Ashok Gangadean

The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.

— Will Hutton

Unlike other essential goods, like clothing, shelter, or food, we take cheap or even free water for granted. It often takes a crisis, such…

— Jose Angel Gurria

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.

— Henry Paulson

The longer it takes you to see a crisis for what it truly is, the disproportionately worse it's likely to get.

— Anonymous

We do not have to borrow in the external market, but we have used and are using this traditional instrument in international financial relations.

— Vladimir Putin

Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial…

— Hassanal Bolkiah

The world economy today is recovering slowly, and there are still some destabilising factors and uncertainties. The underlying impact of the international financial crisis…

— Hu Jintao

“Deep and liquid markets in a country’s domestic economy are the essential shock absorbers through which the perilous waters of international financial integration can…

— Bibek Debroy

A default of the US government would not only be very harmful here, it would probably send the country back into deep recession, but…

— Noam Chomsky

Thousands of years of ideological, philosophical and practical decisions were made. They altered the surface of the earth, the coordinates of our souls. For…

— Arundhati Roy

And the United States of America should have been at the front of that line. And was not. ...

— Kimberley Strassel

From '86 until the summer of last year, wherever I went, people would say, You would have made a great James Bond! Weren't you…

— Pierce Brosnan

I am the epitome of the underdog. By societies standards I should have been dead a long time ago, and I was nobody's gangster,…

— Michael K. Williams

I'm happy with my career but I could have been happier if I could have been treated like a champion should have been treated…

— Larry Holmes