Approach Quote by Mel Watt

North Carolina is home to some of the largest financial institutions in the country, and a vibrant network of community banks. We're a banking…

— Kay Hagan

“The criminalization of debt, then, was the criminalization of the very basis of human society. It cannot be overemphasized that in a small community,…

— David Graeber

“Lenders want to have peace of mind when it comes to getting their money back plus profit – collateral is one thing that gives…

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has insufficient capital to form a corporation.”

— Howard Scott

“Natural law is superior to, and precedes, political and governmental institutions.”

— Mark R. Levin

In Raleigh, partisan battles, power struggles and lawsuits might grab the headlines, but we have to work together where we can. To look beyond…

— Roy Cooper

Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.

— Joseph Stiglitz

“A return to classical bank policy would deem loans fraudulent and annul debts when creditors do not lend with any reasonable calculation of how the…

— Michael Hudson

“Natural law is superior as it allows for the pursuit of virtue genuinely initiated from within and themselves.”

— Patrick Mendis

With the right sources of funding and some smart, strategic thinking about how to force non-banks to follow the same rules as other lenders,…

— Elizabeth Warren

“It's lawmakers know better than anyone that laws are more a matter of practical compromise than any kind of moral imperative.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that of looking…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke