Quotes about Banks

Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs. Votes: 3

Banks get in trouble for one reason: They make bad loans. Votes: 3

Banks' beer. There's nothing like it! To Brazil. And to Barbados justice. Votes: 3

Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing. Votes: 3

Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations. Votes: 3

Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth. Votes: 3

I recently assured Public Sector Banks they will have total autonomy in taking business decisions. Votes: 3

I definitely aspire to be someone like Tyra Banks, who's created an empire for herself. Votes: 3

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money. Votes: 3

Banks can't recoup the costs of serving customers who save in small amounts and transact frequently. Votes: 3

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion. Votes: 3

Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong. Votes: 3

Banks need to have large shareholders on the board that have a direct interest in their performance. Votes: 3

Banks are kinda cool, you put some money in there. It should be kinda vaguely sexy, but it's not. Votes: 3

Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes. Votes: 3

Banks will have to win the confidence of their customers through fair dealing, making good loans, and remaining financially healthy. Votes: 3

I would like to thank the Cypriot people for their maturity and collectedness shown in their interactions with the Cypriot Banks. Votes: 3

In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses. Votes: 3

Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally. Votes: 3

Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence. Votes: 3

Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States. Votes: 3

I always loved that old song 'Banks of the Ohio' - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it. Votes: 3

Probably if you look like Tyra Banks, it probably is hard, even if you are really smart, for people to take - it surprises some. Votes: 3

Banks also have to say no to customers. We can't always give clients what they want; it may not be in the client's best interest. Votes: 3

Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich. Votes: 3

Mathematically, debts grow exponentially at compound interest. Banks recycle the interest into new loans, so debts grow exponentially, faster than the economy can afford to pay. Votes: 3

Banks need to think through their ethics very carefully, and many have done so. I dont know any bank that dismisses the concept of ethical banking. Votes: 3

I like the whole laid-back rapping. I wish I could rap! I wish I could wrap like Azealia Banks or Lil Wayne or someone like that... Votes: 3

Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens? Votes: 3

Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good. Votes: 3

The increase in the assets of the Federal Reserve Banks from 143 Million dollars in 1913 to 45 Billion dollars in 1949 went directly to the private stockholders of the [Federal Reserve] banks. Votes: 3

Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes, bought cars, took out student loans. Votes: 3

I've always wanted to work with Elizabeth Banks. She's so talented and funny, and she's become this force of nature - directing, producing. Being around her is kind of inspiring. Votes: 3

Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy. Votes: 3

Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities. Votes: 3

Banks aren't neutral observers, they're ... the people who caused the mess. It's like someone who's wet themselves in a public building insisting they choose which mop the librarian fetches to clear up the puddle. Votes: 3

Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government Institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers. Votes: 3

Remember that banks aren't markets. The market is amoral. The market doesn't care who you are. You're a trade to the market. The market will sell you if they think you're riskier. Banks didn't do that Votes: 3

I remember Tyra Banks giving me encouraging advice during my first Victoria's Secret commercial shoot. I was so nervous, and she told me to just relax and be confident - that made me feel very comfortable. Votes: 3

George Banks and all he stands for will be saved. Maybe not in life, but in imagination. Because that's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again. Votes: 3

The Graveyard of the Atlantic exhibit reflects the aquarium's proximity to the state's Outer Banks, where thousands of ships have run aground over the centuries. Divers in the exhibit carry on a conversation with visitors outside the tank. Votes: 3

Banks hold deposits and savings entrusted to them by individuals, by businesses, by governments and by central banks. They put that money to work, helping people to buy homes, for example, or lending to businesses to invest in expansion. Votes: 3

Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial. Votes: 3

The works which this man [Joseph Banks] leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent; and yet his name will shine out with lustre in the history of the sciences. Votes: 3

Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this. Votes: 3

I took me to the Banks of the River, and tarried there awhile, as the lowering Sun made one with the Water, giving generously of Itself & its Diverse Colors, in a Splay of Magnificence that preceded a most wonderful Silence. Votes: 3

I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits. I will choose a night with Somerset Maugham or Russell Banks over a crowded bar any day. Votes: 3

Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability. Votes: 3

I had some great role models along the way. My on-field heroes were the great Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, and Willie Mays. I wanted to be like them on the field, and I am so damn proud to join them in the Hall of Fame. Votes: 3

Banks watched the sun creep over the forest of oak trees and a crack of light broke through the night and grew longer and wider and ate the black like a fungus until the darkness was gone and there was light and it was day. Votes: 3

I have always been afraid of banks. Votes: 1

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. Votes: 1

This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. Votes: 1

Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest! Votes: 1

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks. Votes: 1

Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons. Votes: 1

I fear debt. I don't like being indebted to banks. I have a rule in life that I will get it when I can afford it. Votes: 1

Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want. Votes: 1

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted. Votes: 1

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis. Votes: 1

But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit. Votes: 1

Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom. Votes: 1

Nobody had a credit card when I was a kid. No one had credit card debt. But these big companies and banks wanted to know how to get more money out of people - get them charging things. Votes: 1

Like many other banks and finance companies, Green Tree used a process called securitization to resell its home loans to outside investors. Green Tree grouped thousands of these small loans into a pool worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Votes: 1

In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other. Votes: 1

At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions... all good things. Votes: 1

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. Votes: 1

The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact that too few investors - including all of the big investment banks - bet too heavily on the housing market in the years before 2007. Votes: 1

Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds? Votes: 1

Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college. Votes: 1

Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy. Votes: 1

The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China. Votes: 1

The banks run the place. Votes: 0

Time is a river without banks. Votes: 0

I'm not afraid of having big banks. Votes: 0

Banking is necessary - banks are not. Votes: 0

A river without banks is a large puddle. Votes: 0

Small banks that lend to consumers are fine. Votes: 0

I have a responsibility to banks, to shareholders. Votes: 0

I rob banks because that's where the money is. Votes: 0

With heavy rainfall, the river will overflow its banks. Votes: 0

Mediobanca is undervalued but less undervalued than other banks. Votes: 0

I rob banks for a living, what do you do? Votes: 0

I rob banks for a living. What do you do? Votes: 0

The key function of banks is money creation, not intermediation. Votes: 0

Reason and faith are both banks of the same river. Votes: 0

The world needs banking but it does not need banks. Votes: 0

Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world. Votes: 0

Tears are just the overflow from the river-banks of the heart. Votes: 0

What can you do in order to save your own banks? Votes: 0

Bitcoin will do to banks what email did to the postal industry. Votes: 0

The New York Federal Reserve is a tool of the big banks. Votes: 0

The only thing useful banks have invented in 20 years is the ATM. Votes: 0

If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks. Votes: 0

She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. Votes: 0

A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas. Votes: 0

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks. Votes: 0

Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products. Votes: 0

Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products. Votes: 0

Paying debt service to banks leaves less income to buy goods and services. Votes: 0

My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep. Votes: 0

The economy is being run primarily by the banks for their own interest. Votes: 0

The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange. Votes: 0

What would I have done if I wasn't an actor? Probably rob banks. Votes: 0

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had. Votes: 0

Now that rates are moving up, we're seeing more aggressive offerings from banks. Votes: 0

If credit unions can grow and prosper with a 15 percent cap, so can banks. Votes: 0

When government is... bailing out banks... we have every good reason to be alarmed. Votes: 0

To save the banks, you would have to turn the entire Eurozone into Greece. Votes: 0

Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks. Votes: 0

My view is that Washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks. Votes: 0

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side. Votes: 0

In fact, there's no way that banks can be paid everything that they're owed. Votes: 0

We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price. Votes: 0

We need to repeal Dodd-Frank [act]. It is eviscerating small businesses and small banks. Votes: 0

It is clear to me that the financial sector, including CNBC, loves central banks Votes: 0

Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it's the objective. Votes: 0

With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing. Votes: 0

When banks extend loans to their customers, they create money by crediting their customers' accounts. Votes: 0

Average working people need more fresh starts. Big corporations, banks, and Donald Trump need fewer. Votes: 0

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. Votes: 0

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. Votes: 0

I avoid banks and I've never been in any sort of corporate environment at all. Votes: 0

If your only arbiter of anything is money, really you should... go and rob banks. Votes: 0

Whenever there is a a financial crisis, it is always the banks that get hit. Votes: 0

Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Votes: 0

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist. Votes: 0

The TARP program was nevertheless necessary to keep banks from collapsing in a cascade of failures. Votes: 0

Democrats are ready, willing, and able to provide regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions. Votes: 0

Donald Trump doesn't release his tax returns and is indebted to foreign banks and foreign lenders. Votes: 0

People, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations. Votes: 0

In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?" Votes: 0

Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives. Votes: 0

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks. Votes: 0

I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for wattage. Votes: 0

Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere? Votes: 0

It's interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring. Votes: 0

Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks. Votes: 0

Nobody knows everything that's hidden in the balance sheets of banks. In fact, they are completely impenetrable. Votes: 0

Without giving specific names, most of the significant American banks, the larger banks, are bankrupt, totally bankrupt, Votes: 0

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble. Votes: 0

The financial interdependence of the world's banks is like the interlocking alliances that predated World War I. Votes: 0

A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle. Votes: 0

We need to remind politicians they don't work for the big banks - they work for us. Votes: 0

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit. Votes: 0

Credit unions are often a better deal than banks and tend to pay higher yields on deposits. Votes: 0

Talking about Korea, it has pretty high capital ratios at banks and maintains a good credit rating. Votes: 0

Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks. Votes: 0

Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds fee" on money they already know you don't have? Votes: 0

Markets look a lot less efficient from the banks of the Hudsonthan the banks of the Charles. Votes: 0

Fish banks are areas we set aside without fishing, reserves where we allow marine life to come back. Votes: 0

Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned. Votes: 0

The typical fund company services 401k plan participants in the same way that Baby Face Nelson serviced banks. Votes: 0

Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse? Votes: 0

In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms. Votes: 0

Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive. Votes: 0

The Democrats, because they believe in socialism, redistribution, forced the banks and financial institutions to make the risky loans. Votes: 0

While the banks got big bailouts, a sizeable chunk of African-American wealth evaporated because so many people lost homes. Votes: 0

We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them. Votes: 0

When I said "the pocket of the banks," it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset. Votes: 0

There is close to zero trust in institutions in Afghanistan. The mobile carriers have more trust than the banks. Votes: 0

I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc.. Votes: 0

The banks should give a full, fair, and accurate account of their financial positions and they are failing that test. Votes: 0

The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks. Votes: 0

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river. Votes: 0

The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks' often foolish lending. Votes: 0

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time. Votes: 0

I think Dodd-Frank has contributed to a concentration of banking assets in the hands of a small number of banks. Votes: 0

Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities. Votes: 0

The banks have accounts with the Fed, much the same way that you have an account in a commercial bank. Votes: 0

It would be great if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow. Votes: 0

When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como. Votes: 0

Most Swiss banks do have a whistleblower program, but they use it to punish those who avail themselves of it. Votes: 0

The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected. Votes: 0

In America, we have subsidized private jets, big banks and hedge fund managers. Wouldn't it make more sense to subsidize kids? Votes: 0

Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs. Votes: 0

My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops. Votes: 0

All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington ... Votes: 0

Despite the high salaries involved, employing economists is a cost-effective way for banks, and stockbrokers to secure exposure in the media. Votes: 0

If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them. Votes: 0

Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks. Votes: 0

Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs. Votes: 0

Like the healthcare industry, the banks should be taken out of the hands of the 1% and brought under democratic public ownership. Votes: 0

When you say "paying the banks," what they really mean is paying the bank bondholders. They are basically the One Percent. Votes: 0

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief. Votes: 0

In capital we trust. Capital is our savior, our holy grail, our fountain of youth, or at least health, for banks. Votes: 0

Laugh with people laughing, cry with people crying, but don't fall into the river of world illusion. Stay on the banks. Votes: 0

We've got to make greedy banks pass on interest rate cuts in full, and we've got to see rents coming down. Votes: 0

We're not just going to see mid-sized banks go under in the next few months, we're going to see a whopper. Votes: 0

The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority Votes: 0

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. Votes: 0

If Hillary [Clinton] gets elected what she's promised to do with the [New York] banks is going to make London boom. Votes: 0

The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority. Votes: 0

Today what we are doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down those antiquated laws and granting banks significant new authority. Votes: 0

Business cycles lengthened greatly during the 20th century, as central banks learned to manage national economies by raising and lowering interest rates. Votes: 0

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac buy mortgages from banks and other lenders, providing those financial institutions with capital to make new loans. Votes: 0

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink. Votes: 0

We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world. Votes: 0

Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself! Votes: 0

An interesting attribute of public banks is that they don't only de-risk the downside, but also get a share of the upside. Votes: 0

Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside. Votes: 0

The Federal Reserve has never suffered any losses in the course of its normal lending to banks and, now, to primary dealers. Votes: 0

My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck. Votes: 0

Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the banking community, especially smaller banks. Votes: 0

Who lent the Greeks the most money? It was German banks, and for a long time, they were profiting from it quite nicely. Votes: 0

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks. Votes: 0

There used to be corporations that produced products. Now there are just banks that produce deals, hedge-fund-driven banks and derivatives and those things. Votes: 0

Being some country lad from the banks of the River Boyne, I never wanted to be wealthy. I was driven by artistic intention. Votes: 0

You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way. Votes: 0

My life started on the banks of the Boyne in County Meath. Navan is the name of the town; only me, Mom, Dad. Votes: 0

I'd make banks more accountable. I think they should separate totally the personal banking arm with whatever else they are playing around with. Votes: 0

The Obama administration's plan is to have the Federal Reserve regulate banks that might pose a 'systemic risk' if they were to fail. Votes: 0

Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance. Votes: 0

I'm a capitalist, not a corporatist. I'm not someone who believes we should be bailing out corporations whether their auto industries, or banks. Votes: 0

It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks. Votes: 0

We shouldn't be profiting from our students who are drowning in debt while giving a great deal to the banks. That's just wrong. Votes: 0

The same things happen to quite an extent around the globe. I mean, the European banks were doing what the American banks were. Votes: 0

Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen. Votes: 0

She's packed her topside fundamentals so tight into her low-cut dress that it's only a matter of time before she busts her banks. Votes: 0

The financial education taught in schools is funded and taught by the big banks and corporations. It's like having the cat train the mice. Votes: 0

As we drive down the freeways, we see the new cars, but not the massive new-car loans that enslave their drivers to the banks. Votes: 0

There are clear patterns of discrimination against Blacks and Latinos. The big banks targeted Blacks and Latinos with toxic packages of subprime predatory lending. Votes: 0

Every government, from the Obama administration right through to Angela Merkel, the Eurozone and the IMF, promise to save the banks, not the economy. Votes: 0

The quicker you resolve the problems with banks and there's transparency in that process, the faster they recapitalize and are able to make investments. Votes: 0

I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people. Votes: 0

Much as banks don't care where your money's coming from, the Electoral College is all 'don't ask, don't care' when it comes to votes. Votes: 0

The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a dust-free room. Votes: 0

I don't know their names. Their names have been erased from my memory banks. If I tried to bring 'em back, I'd get shocked. Votes: 0

My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound; The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound! Votes: 0

Whatever the potential pitfalls, banks are increasingly enthusiastic about venture capital, particularly in new companies with strong prospects in fields like health care and technology. Votes: 0

Political risk is hard to manage because so much comes down to the personal choices of policymakers, whether prime ministers or heads of central banks. Votes: 0

In the real world, banks hang onto their money for fear of making bad loans, no matter how many bailouts or stimulus packages Washington passes. Votes: 0

We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail. Votes: 0

I think we're in the take-the-money-and-run stage of the economy. So the banks may go under, but the bankers, who make the policy, clean up. Votes: 0

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits. Votes: 0

They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks. Votes: 0

The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools. Votes: 0

The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject. Votes: 0

I don't need debt. And if I need debt, if I want debt, I can get it from banks in New York City very easily. Votes: 0

We look on those approaching the banks of a river all must cross, with ten times the interest they excited when dancing in the meadow. Votes: 0

It's hard to tell which assets will be toxic. The best way to ensure that only shareholders and banks feel it is have adequate capital. Votes: 0

What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks. Votes: 0

I am pleased to be part of Promontory's steady efforts to assist banks and other financial firms in meeting legal and regulatory obligations and challenges. Votes: 0

I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile. Votes: 0

Japan's experience suggests the importance of assessing the sustainability of price stability over a fairly long period, which many central banks have emphasized in recent years. Votes: 0

Good presidents, people like George Bush, they SEND people to war. They don't bring them a rescue. This is America. We rescue insurance companies and banks. Votes: 0

Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr. Votes: 0

With heavy rainfall, the river will overflow its banks. This is spirit of gratitude; the more grateful you are, the more your life overflow with abundance. Votes: 0

The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels. Votes: 0

I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble. Votes: 0

Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night. Votes: 0

We now have power under the Dodd-Frank legislation to break up banks. And I've said I will use that power if they pose a systemic risk. Votes: 0

And many of the people who buy or found banks have had no experience in banking at all. If they can learn it, so can we. Votes: 0

I agree with people who say we want more income equality; we want more consumer protection; and we want sounder banks. I agree with all that. Votes: 0

Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will miss out on life. Votes: 0

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world. Votes: 0

When I started the business, only banks operated at airports, only banks issued travellers' cheques, only banks issued international payments, only banks serviced their own branch networks. Votes: 0

We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks. Votes: 0

What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks. Votes: 0

We need to increase the transparency of shadow banking markets so that authorities can monitor for signs of excessive leverage and unstable maturity transformation outside regulated banks. Votes: 0

This is the twilight of the banks. It would be a more cheerful spectacle if we could envision the dawn of the institutions that will replace them Votes: 0

Can't make your payments? No problem. The interest charges keep on coming. In fact, banks prefer it that way. More money for them. The government guarantees it. Votes: 0

When I was young, I thought banks were there to protect the assets of people who had justified concerns, because of their experiences under communism for example. Votes: 0

The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper. Votes: 0

What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events proved that right. Votes: 0

I rescue families who are losing their homes because they have no jobs and they can't pay the mortgage and the banks are foreclosing on their homes. Votes: 0

The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky. Votes: 0

The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly. Votes: 0

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores. Votes: 0

I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour. Votes: 0

The investment banks should either choose to be regulated as banks or should arrange to conduct their affairs to not require the stop-gap support of the Federal Reserve. Votes: 0

And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people. Votes: 0

In the 1970s, New York City avoided bankruptcy because wise political leaders like Gov. Hugh L. Carey believed both in strong labor unions and robust banks and companies. Votes: 0

Narrow banks could restart effective intermediation and ensure that consumers and employment-creating small and medium-size enterprises are adequately financed and can contribute to the reactivation of the economy. Votes: 0

And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people." Votes: 0

It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well. Votes: 0

In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems. Votes: 0

In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems Votes: 0

China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks. Votes: 0

Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership. Votes: 0

The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large. Votes: 0

The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look like places to break out of rather than places to enter. Votes: 0

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses. Votes: 0

Capping the size of American banks won't eliminate the needs of big businesses; it will force them to turn to foreign banks that won't face the same restrictions. Votes: 0

Consumers view of you is not about how they compare you to other banks. It's about how they compare you to all of the other businesses they experience. Votes: 0

I deposit in many banks including the bank of wisdom. The more I draw on my accounts, no matter how big the sum, the bigger my balance becomes Votes: 0

The one instrument that has relative political autonomy is monetary policy. Central banks do not need to go to Congress to get approval for an interest rate hike. Votes: 0

Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess Votes: 0

All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S. Votes: 0

You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot violate the law. Votes: 0

Life is about flows not about stuff we have. Water in a tank turns bad. Water that flows gives life. Money in banks turn toxic, it must flow Votes: 0

You have to eventually nationalize US banks, you have to take the problem by the horns. In my view actually most of the US banking system is insolvent. Votes: 0

The big banks advise cities about whether privatization is a wise choice. They also control the ability of states and cities to access the market for their financing needs. Votes: 0

On the banks of the Nile, the Rosetta branch, I lived an enjoyable childhood in the City of Disuq, which is the home of the famous mosque, Sidi Ibrahim. Votes: 0

Deflation can be particularly dangerous when a financial system is shaky, with household and corporate balance sheets in poor shape and banks undercapitalized and heavily burdened with bad loans. Votes: 0

People with banking experience haven't all flocked to the biggest banks; community banks and regional banks, along with smaller trading houses and credit unions, have some very talented people. Votes: 0

Learn to raise capital by any means necessary. That's your primary job as an entrepreneur. You must continually raise capital from family and friends, banks, suppliers, customers and investors. Votes: 0

The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations. Votes: 0

Big banks are more dangerous than standing armies, and the practice of borrowing and spending money to be paid back by the next generation is stealing from their future. Votes: 0

Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic. Votes: 0

The way the banks behave is frankly unbearable. I didn't rob for me. I expropriated resources for a struggle. If I had robbed for myself that would be different. Votes: 0

My family has spent 400 years farming on the banks of the Rio Grande. We know the value of hard work, love of the community, love for water and land. Votes: 0

When were we the most egalitarian country in the world? When we had the Glass/Steagal Act, which prevented the banks from becoming the criminal operations that they've become. Votes: 0

The sky's inclemency stirs up the angry winds;the watery clouds are soaking with ceaseless rain.The turbulent Vltava, swollen with rainy waves,Bursting, impetuous, breaks through its river banks. Votes: 0

We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to shut the door and switch off the electricity. Votes: 0

My operating assumption is we will always have very tough competition. And even with some European banks struggling right now, some of them can reemerge - and maybe even stronger. Votes: 0

The Federal Reserve, like other central banks, wields powerful tools; democratic accountability requires that the public be able to see how and for what purposes those tools are being used. Votes: 0

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 because they still remember the crisis. Votes: 0

The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks." Votes: 0

The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks. Votes: 0

I don't drink much and I smoke very little. I guess my only bad habit is robbing banks. Now you see, fellas, I ain't such a bad guy at heart. Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton trashes the banks every time she opens her mouth, and yet she made $21 million in two years making speeches to those very banks that she trashes every day. Votes: 0

There really isn't a recovery, and no signs of it on the horizon, because people have to pay the banks. It's a vicious circle - or rather, a downward spiral. Votes: 0

The river flowed from century to century, and human affairs play themselves out on its banks. Play themselves out to be forgotten the next day, while the river flows on. Votes: 0

If nations join together now, before the big collapse and share their resources, they can maintain a level of sustainability. Sustain the people that is, and not banks and businesses. Votes: 0

Good strong banks are essential for every family and for every business in the country and extraordinary times call for the bold and far-reaching solutions that the Treasury has announced today. Votes: 0

All the light was now coming from the East; and it looked breathtakingly new. In a very short time, everything was nationalized, from banks to factories, from pharmacies to little distilleries." Votes: 0

When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both while getting stuck in neither, then we are free. Votes: 0

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 causes, they're almost always failed government policies. Votes: 0

It is sad that the more 'successful' a neighborhood becomes, the more it gradually takes on a recognizable, common look, as the same banks, drugstore chains and national brands move in. Votes: 0

The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus. Votes: 0

The economy may be complex, but Americans understand that the Wall Street banks control an outsized portion of the economy and that they have an outsized interest in their own profits. Votes: 0

Nine of 10 whites in Chicago borrow from top-drawer banks and mortgage companies, which the industry calls prime lenders. They lend to people with A credit ratings, making loans at competitive rates. Votes: 0

In order to be an economist these days, you have to participate in this fairytale that somehow we can recover and still make the banks rich. And it is a fairytale. Votes: 0

I'm thinking of switching banks, and my friend said, 'Well, what's wrong with Citibank?' Well, they can't spell 'city.' I hope their math is better than their English is. Votes: 0

Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise. Votes: 0

Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice. Votes: 0

When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines, I don't think anybody thought the banks were against technology because they didn't want their ATM machines lifted. Votes: 0

Bernie Sanders says that the biggest banks that dominate the economy should be broken up into smaller banks. This would be far more radical than Hillary Clinton's proposals to regulate Wall Street. Votes: 0

The subprime disaster was a result of financial bombs - derivatives - exploding in financial institutions such as AIG and Lehman Brothers, as well as banks and financial institutions throughout the world. Votes: 0

I believe that the federal government, like a raging river, has expanded upon the barriers and the boundaries of its banks, and unfortunately, it is flooding all of America with its encroachment. Votes: 0

The Great Bailout is mostly over for the banks. But for those troubled behemoths of the nation's housing bust, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the lifeline from Washington just keeps getting longer. Votes: 0

The central banks cannot control interest rates. That's a mistake. They can control a particular rate, such as the Federal Funds rate, if they want to, but they can't control interest rates. Votes: 0

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, the entire landscape of consumer lending would change. Votes: 0

The lack of monetary discipline has become a hallmark of unfettered globalization. Central banks have failed to provide a stable underpinning to world financial markets and to an increasingly asset-dependent global economy. Votes: 0

I have great, great confidence in our capital markets and in our financial institutions. Our financial institutions, banks and investment banks, are strong. Our capital markets are resilient. They're efficient. They're flexible. Votes: 0

Do you think Bernie Sanders, for example, is citing Theodore Roosevelt as the progenitor of his critique of the banks when actually Roosevelt wanted to keep the banks together and regulate them. Votes: 0

Close the weak banks and impose serious capital requirements on the strong ones...You see, it may sound hard-hearted, but you cannot keep unsound financial institutions operating simply because they provide jobs. Votes: 0

I ran for office originally as part of this Tea Party Movement because we were upset with Republicans who've doubled the debt. We were upset with Republicans that bailed out the banks. Votes: 0

The wealthy have installed their slaves in the highest spheres of the state. The banks are privately owned. They are concerned solely with profits. They have no interest in the common good. Votes: 0

I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks. Votes: 0

The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall. Votes: 0

WikiLeaks will not comply with legally abusive requests from Scientology any more than WikiLeaks has complied with similar demands from Swiss banks, Russian offshore stem-cell centers, former African kleptocrats, or the Pentagon. Votes: 0

Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But if they succeed, they are immediately discovered. Votes: 0

If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a better position to attenuate the disruptive expansionary tendencies of our economy. Votes: 0

Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French banks, who for a long time were major creditors for Greece and Greek banks. Votes: 0

Wall Street banks have the right to express their views to lawmakers and regulators through lobbying, but the law is clear: If they want to influence lawmakers, they must disclose their lobbying expenditures. Votes: 0

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem. Votes: 0

I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms, Votes: 0

It does not stand to give banks millions of dollars at an interest rate of one percent, when banks charge students an interest rate of 6 percent. Why should the banks be scalping students? Votes: 0

What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts about you and me that now exist in giant server banks. Votes: 0

Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed? Votes: 0

After a long period in which the desired direction for inflation was always downward, the industrialized world's central banks must today try to avoid major changes in the inflation rate in either direction. Votes: 0

All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap. Votes: 0

You yourself are time- your body, your mind, the objects around you. Plunge into the river of time and swim, instead of standing on the banks and noting the course of the currents. Votes: 0

We let a river shower its banks with a spirit that invades the people living there, and we protect that river, knowing that without its blessings the people have no source of soul. Votes: 0

The global financial system consists of firms in the financial services sector - banks, hedge funds, insurance companies and the like - and various governmental agencies who are charged with regulating these firms. Votes: 0

RelayRides and WhipCar, AirBnB, Roomorama and One Fine Stay are all stellar examples of how new, access-based offers entice and provoke insurance companies and banks to re-think risk, value, customers and deal terms. Votes: 0

If there were not derivatives, there would be no bank loans at all today, because people want to get fixed-rate 30-year loans, but banks don't want to keep 30-year loans on their books. Votes: 0

Disney had made such a great deal of money on Snow White that the banks gave him the go-ahead on the next three films. But he was heavily dependent on the foreign market. Votes: 0

The only thing you can be sure of, Herr March, is that - whoever wins - still standing when the smoke of battle clears will be the banks of the cantons of Switzerland. Votes: 0

I'm all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that's what banks are for. Votes: 0

Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem. Votes: 0

Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I don’t expect any serious problems . . . . among the large, internationally active banks that make up a very substantial part of our banking system. Votes: 0

The recovery of the banks is what happens when you reduce competition, lend money to them at zero interest rates, allow them to gamble. That particular style of restoration actually inhibits the economic recovery. Votes: 0

We find the instinct to shut out competition deep-rooted even among banks and corporations, among corner grocers and haberdasheries, among peanut vendors and shoeshine boys-and even among young ladies in search of a husband. Votes: 0

It is a campaign to break down every barrier that holds you back. We need more than a plan for the big banks. The middle class needs a raise. And we need more jobs. Votes: 0

I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out. Votes: 0

The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant future. Keeping them TARP-stuffed is the key to control. Votes: 0

If banks anticipate government will come to the rescue should the credit market go badly awry, they may make loans that would otherwise be imprudent, e.g. subprime loans with little prospect of repayment. Votes: 0

Dodd-Frank and independent actions of banks go a long way in terms of progress on capital, liquidity, transparency, "living wills" (plans for winding down a bank in the event of a collapse) and resolutions. Votes: 0

It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under their mattress. It's not that they are tight with money - they just don't trust anyone. Votes: 0

I don't remember my childhood very well for one reason or another, possibly childhood trauma or possibly just a very bad memory. My early life has sort of been erased from my memory banks. Votes: 0

Merely taking the profits from the hotels and putting those aside is not enough. They need to look at bank loans. They need to look at foreign banks leasing space in the Trump Tower. Votes: 0

My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger. Votes: 0

There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses. Votes: 0

The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes. Votes: 0

I don't think I've ever been critical of the money Douglas Adams makes, especially since, as has been tactfully pointed out, I myself have had to change banks having filled the first one up. Votes: 0

I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world. Votes: 0

In China, remember, the the banks are arms of state policy. They loan because the local party official or regional party official tells them we need a new stadium. They are instruments of state policy. Votes: 0

We are committing ourselves to basic protections of our people... We will not permit banks to repossess the homes of working class and middle class people. That's the end of that, it is not negotiable. Votes: 0

On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States. Votes: 0

Far below ran the silver ribbon of the East River, braceleted by shining bridges, flecked by boats as small as flyspecks, splitting the shining banks of light that were Manhattan and Brooklyn on either side. Votes: 0

The Web is a compelling new medium being put to all kinds of uses, by everyone from banks to Cub Scouts to flying saucer cults. That said, it can also be a powerful folly amplifier. Votes: 0

Nationalization would likely mean wiping out the big banks' managements and shareholders. It's because that reckoning has mostly been avoided so far that those bankers may be the Americans in the greatest denial of all. Votes: 0

Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly - if not daily - nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street. Votes: 0

The water moves on, a little faster than before, yet still the great river flows. It is as fluid and unpredictable in its moods as it has ever been, but it meanders within familiar banks. Votes: 0

"One of the governor's complaints: federal rules that prohibit dispensary owners from putting their money in banks. "If you really want to introduce corruption into legal marijuana," he said, make it an all cash business." Votes: 0

I find that it is much easier now for women to be in any position because, as you see, they are presidents of banks, they are prime ministers, they are doctors. Everything is about women. Votes: 0

Oh, the moon is fair tonight along the Wabash, From the fields there comes the breath of new-mown hay; Through the sycamores the candle lights are gleaming On the banks of the Wabash, far away. Votes: 0

A contingent bailout policy - implicit or explicit - must be coupled with some regulation of what banks can and cannot do. For example, a ban on lending to uncreditworthy customers might well make sense. Votes: 0