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“It’s become a cliché by now, but since 2008, no high-ranking executive from any financial institution has gone to jail, not one, for any… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“His last name was Gum, and I wanted to chew him out. But I’ll save that for the Federal Reserve, who are responsible for… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Now, take a man like Nixon, a man who is going to be President of the United States. He’s known for his poker playing,… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
“This generation of Wall Street CEOs could be the ones to forfeit America’s trust. When the history of the Great Recession is written, they… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
“I’d thought it strange, after the financial crisis, in which Goldman had played such an important role, that the only Goldman Sachs employee who… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Von Pein’s family was a little known, but highly influential entity within American banking circles. Banking Royalty, some called it. His grandfather had been… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
“The closest most people have ever come to understanding what an investment banker does may have been on October 24, 1995, when they heard… — Peter Troob Copy Share Image
When the secretary of treasury, the head of the central bank, the head of the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.), and the head of… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
Barclays Bank in England purchased bankrupt Lehman Brothers Tuesday along with its Manhattan tower, saving nine thousand jobs. It's humiliating. The United States of… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I happen to think that Hillary Clinton is a beacon of hope for younger girls, as was Barack Obama in other inspirational areas. We've… — Alex Meneses Copy Share Image
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man. — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent. — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
Let's get real: would any American president seriously open up their borders unconditionally to Mexico as the U.K. has done to the whole of… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
It was interesting watching the Afghanistan war review deliberations, this three-month process where Barack Obama did the most thorough foreign policy review ever by… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
“When was the last time an American president found it worth his while to write a speech on the importance of art and literature?… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
To give credit to Lincoln for moral progression seems beyond the facts and unnecessary for our appreciation of this arguably greatest of all American… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
In fact, American presidents never apologize for what America does in war, because in the American mind, all its wars are defensive, always fought… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and… — Lee H. Hamilton Copy Share Image
On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my… — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
