Aspect Quote by George W. Bush

Let's not forget, what TARP did allowed us to move overnight and put capital into hundreds of banks, and that money came back plus…

— Henry Paulson

When I left the Treasury, there was a poll that showed - and I don't remember the numbers exactly right - something like 90%…

— Henry Paulson

TARP is funded by taxpayers, so there are many rules about how that money can and can't be used. The result: GM spends an…

— Edward Whitacre, Jr

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I passionately disagreed with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's plan to bail out the banks by using a public fund called the Troubled Asset Relief…

— George Soros

I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.

— Nancy Pelosi

Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP…

— P. J. O'Rourke

We did not anticipate the political fallout from it. We definitely didn't need it and we paid it back the first day we were…

— Jamie Dimon

I think TARP was the most defining vote since I've been in Congress. It was wrong. You don't nationalize private - it was wrong.…

— Louie Gohmert

What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It's equivalent…

— James Hansen

It wasn't what we needed then that was hurting us, it was what we was paying for that we had already used up. The…

— Will Rogers

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it…

— Paddy Ashdown