Banking Quote by John Major

Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs.

— George Papandreou

“The Federal Reserve System had been established to prevent what actually happened. It was set up to avoid a situation in which you would…

— Alan Ebenstein

We think it would be safer if the Bank of England had responsibility for solvency regulation of UK-based banks, as well as having an…

— John Redwood

There has been a banking crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis, a geostrategic crisis and an environmental crisis. That's considerable…

— Jean-Francois Cope

So perhaps the most worrying single remark made by a responsible banking official during the current crisis came from Jochen Sanio, the head of…

— Martin Walker

People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings…

— Lucy Powell

There's some evidence that if you're recruiting, you tend to recruit a mini-me. Then you have a very comfortable group round a table. You…

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people…

— Norman Granz

The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet Union in…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Western Europe GDP per capita - not taking into account the new accession counties - was lower in 2001 relative to that of the…

— John Hutton

Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age in Europe…

— Peter Padfield

They [leaders in Western Europe] do not misuse financial instruments, financial injections, but, first of all, seek structural change. This is urgent for our…

— Vladimir Putin