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480 Banks quotes by 371 unique authors
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In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional…
— Timothy Geithner
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I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their…
— Alan Greenspan
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The only thing useful banks have invented in 20 years is the ATM.
— Paul Volcker
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The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority
— John Ashcroft
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I rob banks for a living. What do you do?
— John Dillinger
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I don't drink much and I smoke very little. I guess my only bad habit is robbing banks. Now you see, fellas, I ain't such…
— John Dillinger
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If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street…
— Ron Chernow
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In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.
— Ron Chernow
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The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks' often foolish lending.
— Martin Wolf
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What’s happened is that, almost overnight, we’ve switched from democracy in real-property recording to oligarchy in real-property recording. There was no court case behind this,…
— Christopher Peterson
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Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to…
— Carter Glass
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The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to…
— Carroll Quigley
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Today what we are doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down those antiquated laws and granting banks significant new authority.
— William J. Clinton
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I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public lands among the…
— Sam Houston
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Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I don’t expect any serious problems . . . . among the large, internationally active…
— Ben Bernanke
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Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long…
— Martin Van Buren
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China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by…
— Virginia Foxx
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The key function of banks is money creation, not intermediation.
— Michael Kumhof
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Capping the size of American banks won't eliminate the needs of big businesses; it will force them to turn to foreign banks that won't face…
— Jamie Dimon
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The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!
— John Buchanan Robinson
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Reason and faith are both banks of the same river.
— Domenico Cieri
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Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.
— Giannina Braschi
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I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should worry…
— Arthur Laffer
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With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing.
— Toshihiko Fukui
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