Back Quote by Henry Paulson

Let's be honest: It wasn't just the banks who messed up. There were a lot of people who tried to buy assets they couldn't…

— James P. Gorman

I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them…

— John Kennedy

We had a strategy to dollarize. It was to take the assets of the Central Bank against the national government, transfer those securities to…

— Javier Milei

The TARP program was nevertheless necessary to keep banks from collapsing in a cascade of failures.

— Mitt Romney

“Kanjorski claims to be repeating an account of events given to him by US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke:…

— Robert Skidelsky

“Myth: Bail-in plans would recapitalize big banks. Fact: big banks are far too insolvent to remotely be in a position for such restoration.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads and highways.…

— Matt Taibbi

The banks themselves were doing business on capitals three-fourths of which were fictitious. This fictitious capital... is now to be lost, and to fall…

— Thomas Jefferson

That's been lost. It's a huge problem. What you have is you have the major institutions of the world all wanting to deleverage. They…

— Warren Buffett

We have a balance of $ .32 in the bank . . . Which makes us four-and-a-half trillion dollars richer than the federal government.

— Jim Borgman

We owe $20 trillion, and we're a mess. And we've spent $6 trillion in the Middle East, according to a report that I just…

— Donald Trump

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