The financial sector is vital to the economy. A…

Taking away the risk from the financial sector and taking it on to the public shoulders is not the right approach.

— Jeroen Dijsselbloem

The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating its financial sector unnecessarily and neglecting its small and mid-sized industrial companies.

— Wolfgang Schauble

“We cannot build a vital economy by delivering pizzas to one another.”

— Jim Wright

People need the financial sector to be safe; people also need the financial sector to go through a massive phase of innovation. That means…

— Taavet Hinrikus

The Internet is a bright spot for our struggling economy and functioning just fine without what amounts to a federal pat-down of the inner…

— Mary Bono

“The dictator has to keep the economy functioning in order to keep stealing from it.”

— Tim Harford

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.

— Marcy Kaptur

I think there's no question but what the tail end of the Bush administration, Bush-Cheney administration, that we took steps specifically geared to try…

— Dick Cheney

When you've got a economy in which 40 percent of economic growth is happening in the financial sector, that turns out that was all…

— Barack Obama

I grew up in Monaco, and in that environment going into the financial sector was the obvious choice.

— Herve Falciani

In a world with weak aggregate demand, countries are engaging in a futile competition for a greater share of it. In the process, they…

— Raghuram Rajan

It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry culture that…

— Charles Ferguson

One of the lessons that I hope people will take out is the extreme dependence simply on the financial sector is really dangerous.

— Juan Enriquez

It is clear to me that the financial sector, including CNBC, loves central banks

— Marc Faber

From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an…

— John L. Casti