Financial crisis Quotes · Page 3

Dodd-Frank has disproportionately burdened community banks, despite their having no role in the financial crisis.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

If Freddie Mac is unable to raise capital, it could spark a political and financial crisis.

— Charles Duhigg

We need to ensure the poorest in the planet - who will be hardest hit by the financial crisis - are not…

— Kofi Annan

When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about.

— Charles Ferguson

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.

— James Buchan

What Adam McKay did with illuminating the financial crisis in 'The Big Short,' he's now doing with the media in 'Succession.'

— Jeremy Strong

There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.

— Paul Krugman

Let me tell you, one of the most proud aspects of my career was buying Indymac during the financial crisis.

— Steve Mnuchin

It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But…

— Matt Taibbi

President Obama inherited a broken country mired in two wars, a financial crisis, a mortgage mess and more than we all probably…

— Don Cheadle

The only time in my career I've lost sleep - wake up 3:30 in the morning, and you know you're not going…

— Sallie Krawcheck

The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal…

— Mark Zandi

In response to the drop in wealth suffered as a consequence of the 2008 financial crisis, homeowners and firms did attempt to…

— Dale T. Mortensen

Created by Congress as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, the CFPB was a direct…

— Joe Sestak

The egotistical ambition to always want to earn more money harms both the company and the individual himself. That is the biggest…

— Dalai Lama

Europe has, to put it mildly, been in a poor state since the transition to the 21st century. This is down to…

— Helmut Kohl

“But this approach fails in cases where the future is different from the past and you don’t know the cause-effect relationships well…

— Ray Dalio

The rich believe that they're different and that it is their right to pay a much lower tax rate. The response that…

— Robin Wells

The Fed contributed to the financial crisis, keeping interest rates too low for too long. I give them credit for responding and…

— Kevin Brady

Something really big happened in the world's wiring in the last decade, but it was obscured by the financial crisis and post-9/11.…

— Thomas Friedman

There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than…

— Vince Cable

“There are only a handful of countries that have experienced what Indonesia has endured: financial crisis, political instability, separatism, ethnic conflicts, terrorism…

— SBYudhoyono

“The genuine object of debate raised by the [2008 financial] crisis ought to be how to overcome the short-termism to which we…

— Bernard Stiegler

As the United States continues its slow but steady recovery from the depths of the financial crisis, nobody actually wants a massive…

— Fareed Zakaria

“LOST is often lauded as one of the best fantasy dramas in television history, as well as one of the most cryptic…

— Ben East

“The point is that price stability is only one of the indicators of economic stability. In fact, for most people, it is…

— Anonymous

Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.

— Barack Obama

There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.

— Balaji Srinivasan

Although the financial crisis, you know, receded a while ago, we kind of never picked up on it.

— Lloyd Blankfein

If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.

— Elizabeth Warren

There is no question that the recovery from the global recession triggered by the 2008 financial crisis has been unusually lengthy and anemic.

— Michael Spence

For me, the Asian financial crisis of 1998 and the war in Kosovo in 1999 are the prelude to the integral accident.

— Paul Virilio

No man bears more responsibility for the present worldwide financial crisis and coming depression than Alan Greenspan.

— Bill Bonner

The financial crisis is a stark reminder that transparency and disclosure are essential in today's marketplace.

— Jack Reed

I experienced the year 2000 dot com crash and the 2008 financial crisis, and it almost wiped out the company.

— Eric Yuan

I was a professor at Princeton University. And, in that capacity, I studied for many years the role of financial crisis in…

— Ben Bernanke

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in…

— Ben Bernanke

I admire President Obama. He inherited the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. That was a terrible time for America.

— Hillary Clinton

“Hedge funds have made massive leveraged credit bets, knowing that their upside is billions in fees and their downside is millions in…

— Janet M. Tavakoli

I felt that the Fed had always been the agency that picked up the pieces when there was a financial crisis, and…

— Janet Yellen