Bankers Quote by Carroll Quigley

Instead, there were a variety of controls of which some could be influenced by bankers, some could be influenced by the government, and some…

— Carroll Quigley

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation

— Napoleon Bonaparte

It's not enough say, "Look, bankers were immensely greedy and that they committed lots of frauds." I mean, that's not, they were set free,…

— Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

“When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Each central banksought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic…

— Carroll Quigley

And as a matter of fact, governments don't act, governments only react. The bankers make the decisions, and then governments decide how are we…

— Robert Anton Wilson

“Government is a tool of the bankers.”

— Anonymous

The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of…

— Martin Van Buren

If you bring cases against powerful bankers, they will enlist their political allies and they will give very large political contributions to do that

— William K. Black

Bankers also play politics.

— Manmohan Singh

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they…

— Carroll Quigley

Bankers were scapegoats for the whole Reagan-Thatcher era, which exalted finance and humbled industry, and which had allowed the fruits of progress to accrue…

— Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky