Blow Quote by L. William Seidman

The federal [bank deposit] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures. The next…

— H. L. Mencken

Buying insurance is no one's idea of fun. And it's especially easy to berate something as funky-sounding as writing checks to defend our neighborhoods…

— Seth Shostak

The basic premise of insurance is the pooling of funds from many to cover the costs of some. There are complicated methods for how…

— Ron Williams

I've got to say our banking system is a safe and a sound one. And since the days when we've had federal deposit insurance…

— Henry Paulson

I want to assure all Yes Bank depositors that their money is safe.

— Anurag Thakur

If there is a risk in a bank, our first question should be 'Okay, what are you in the bank going to do about…

— Jeroen Dijsselbloem

Fires and floods, we're hardwired to accept them or at least file them under Bad Things Happening. But there's something so abstract and so…

— John Lanchester

Some banks won’t make it. Other banks are going to make sure that we strengthen. All deposits are going to be safe for ordinary…

— Barack Obama

Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.

— Ernst Zundel

We gauge risk literally hundreds of times per day, usually well and often subconsciously. We start assessing risk before the disaster even happens. We…

— Amanda Ripley

The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it's always a good idea to spread around major sums so…

— Suze Orman

What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance…

— Andrew Tobias