Banking Quote by William Jennings Bryan

The financial interdependence of the world's banks is like the interlocking alliances that predated World War I.

— Dick Morris

If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall…

— Ron Chernow

Bankers were scapegoats for the whole Reagan-Thatcher era, which exalted finance and humbled industry, and which had allowed the fruits of progress to accrue…

— Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

“It was not always the case, of course, that navies paid for themselves. In wartime, costs often exceeded revenues, and those deficits grew over…

— Max Boot

“Every major war in American history, except the Mexican and Spanish-American, has either led to central banking or resulted from it. Central banking and…

— Mark David Ledbetter

Some of the people in finance touch enormous parts of the economy.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

I think Dodd-Frank has contributed to a concentration of banking assets in the hands of a small number of banks.

— Mitt Romney

The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of…

— Martin Van Buren

Frankly, I have a lot of interests, and I am not all that wedded only to banking.

— Arundhati Bhattacharya

Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

When I look at how the banking world has changed and at the role Chinese banks, for example, play today, Germany, as an export-oriented…

— Peer Steinbruck

The economy may be complex, but Americans understand that the Wall Street banks control an outsized portion of the economy and that they have…

— Marcy Kaptur