Messed up Quote by James P. Gorman

The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they…

— Ben Stein

The same things happen to quite an extent around the globe. I mean, the European banks were doing what the American banks were.

— Warren Buffett

The financial crisis was linked to the fact that banks had excessive leverage and too many risky assets. The solution is not to try…

— John Paulson

Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes,…

— Elizabeth Warren

There really isn't a recovery, and no signs of it on the horizon, because people have to pay the banks. It's a vicious circle…

— Michael Hudson

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

— Nigel Farage

I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have…

— Timothy Noah

The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So when a…

— Will Rogers

We [US government] have used our taxpayer dollars not only to subsidize these banks but also to subsidize the creditors of those banks and…

— Elizabeth Warren

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.

— John Hume

It's true that monetary policy was too lax for too long, and the government encouraged lending to people who were unlikely to repay their…

— Paul Singer

People get into debt head over heels because banks make it so easy to do so. Then the banks come along and act like…

— Jonathan Raymond