Accurate Quote by Kevin Drum

We were able in the Recovery Act to get a program where we increased our loan guarantees to 90 percent. Because we had that…

— Karen Mills

It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay.

— Publilius Syrus

The 2009 stimulus law got the ball rolling, allowing the agency to reduce and eliminate fees and raise loan guarantees to 90 percent of…

— Karen Mills

Medicare's top officials said in 2006 that they had reduced the number of fraudulent and improper claims paid by the agency, keeping billions of…

— Charles Duhigg

We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the…

— Karen Mills

Opportunities for fraud are open and they are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The reverse is…

— Marta Andreasen

My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly…

— Salmon P. Chase

I was able to solve enough big problems along the way that the sheriff didn't come along and put the 'bankruptcy' sign up.

— Fred DeLuca

The point being we used to have a system that wasn't as rigged in how the tax structure functioned. The president [Barack Obama] and…

— Joe Biden

The more we turn down questionable offers like trip insurance and scrutinize 'one month' trials, the less incentive companies will have to use such…

— Richard Thaler

For my own part, I did not see and did not appreciate what the risks were with securitization, the credit ratings agencies, the shadow…

— Janet Yellen

In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the…

— Roy Barnes