Crisis Quote by John Paulson

You could argue the banks are much better capitalised than they were going into the crisis, and everyone's in a much more vigilant state…

— Michael Lewis

There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And…

— Timothy Geithner

From the beginning of time, we've had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for the root…

— Henry Paulson

The bankers might not have said it in so many words, but gradually their strategy emerged: Target families who were already in a little…

— Elizabeth Warren

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

There's no question the crisis demonstrated that the bank system didn't work. And when you looked at the aftermath of the crisis, what needed…

— Vikram Pandit

One of the big problems we had during the financial crisis was the intermingling of banks and holding companies and complex securities.

— Steve Mnuchin

It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their…

— Evan Davis

The financial system has to be regulated, we have to end with the tax havens, and it's necessary that the central banks in the…

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Whenever there is a a financial crisis, it is always the banks that get hit.

— Gordon Wu

“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

I haven't studied it deeply, but the American banks started the crisis with far more capital and what I would call "good liquidity." The…

— Jamie Dimon