Checks Quote by Frank Abagnale

When people reflexively write checks to institutions that have billions of dollars in the bank, they are essentially committing a moral crime. Your money…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.

— Jim Hightower

Fires and floods, we're hardwired to accept them or at least file them under Bad Things Happening. But there's something so abstract and so…

— John Lanchester

Our whole system of banks is a violation of every honest principle of banks. There is no honest bank but a bank of deposit.…

— John Adams

Banks aren't neutral observers, they're ... the people who caused the mess. It's like someone who's wet themselves in a public building insisting they…

— Mark Steel

I want to assure all Yes Bank depositors that their money is safe.

— Anurag Thakur

The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened by hidden…

— Walter Bagehot

The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated,…

— James Surowiecki

We don't have the necessary laws or powers to deal with failing non-bank institutions. If they're a big bank, the depositor has deposit insurance,…

— Henry Paulson

Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.

— Dan Quayle

If the government has any courage, it will punish those at the top of failed banks. Accountability is critical in every area of human…

— Andrea Leadsom

The banks should give a full, fair, and accurate account of their financial positions and they are failing that test.

— Kevin Warsh