Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marty Heires

Many community bankers have charged that we are going to open branches around the country. That simply isn't true.

Lupe Fiasco

Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.

Ben Bernanke

If bankers become overly conservative in response to past lending mistakes - or if examiners force such behavior - it will hurt bankers' own long-term interests and the economy in general.

Eliot Spitzer

I don't have any particular expertise-I've never been a banker or an investment banker. But I did see an evolution in the system that I thought was problematic.

Julian Callow

Some central bankers perhaps are not seeing growth as strong as the survey data suggest.

Thom Browne

I come from a family of bankers and lawyers, and they joked that they can't believe I'm the one that gets to go to the White House.

Warren Stephens

We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.

Felix Rohatyn

Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it is a service that must not simply be about making bigger and bigger deals that reap rewards for only a small group of executives.

Rory Stewart

The politicians think the journalists have power, the journalists think bankers have power, bankers think lawyers have power. The truth is, nobody has power.

Peggy Kennelly

Like any large city, they're interested in reducing their traffic and improving their environment. People are changing their behavior.

Alice Bisno

Many of these laws are designed to improve safety for motorists by increasing penalties for unsafe driving behavior.

Jean Peterson

Many are intense, sensitive and stressed by their own and others' high expectations and their ability, interests and behavior may make them vulnerable.

Jacques Chirac

Serb authorities have had an unacceptable behavior for too long with regard to the Kosovo Albanians.

David Lereah

Modeling a relationship between economic and commercial market indicators, as well as market trends and sentiment, will provide us with a new tool in assessing market behavior in the major commercial real estate sectors. It is being designed as an index to provide early signals of turning points between expansions and slowdowns in commercial real estate activity.

Christopher Durang

One of my impulses in writing is to take people's crazy behavior and try to make order of what sometimes feels chaotic in the past.

Stephen Hadley

Obviously, we didn't have the intelligence we needed in that particular instance. In some sense, those countries that pursue weapons of mass destruction in secret also learned an important lesson - that there are risks of that kind of behavior and that kind of activity.

Ian Grossman

Now we recognize we need to spend more time on driver-behavior safety programs. Driver performance is playing a far greater role in contributing to crashes.

Dick Van Dyke

Everything's getting homogenized. It seems to me like music and behavior and everything else is getting homogenized.

Paul Brewbaker

Lucky for everybody because it says something about our underlying economy.

Gene Sperling

Let's keep our economy strong, let's keep our interest rates low. That's the smart thing to do. And, if things work out better in the future, then we'll have more money for a tax cut, ... Late Edition.

Fadel Gheit

Losing the Saudi oil would immediately shock the U.S. economy to the worst level in decades,

Loesje

Let's give the individual the space to grow, instead of the economy

Tim Ryan

Many of the businesses, large and small, that were operating in New Orleans on Aug. 28 are not going to be here anymore, ... If we were to measure the New Orleans economy now, it would make everybody sick.

Marcy Kaptur

Mr. Speaker, there are plenty of signs that the United States economy is not working well. One of the signs is our national debt.

Masaki Iso

Much of the optimism about the economy has already been discounted into the shares and they're not cheap.

Phil Gramm

Mr. Chairman, please don't try to fix an economy that isn't broken, ... Don't become so frightened by success that you throw wet blankets on a fire that isn't burning.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men do not realize how great a revenue economy is

Richard P. Feynman

Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task.

Jason Smith

Let's go help these people. We're not doing forced evacuations. We're helping those who want help.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable

Richard Armitage

looks to me like somehow the multinational force didn't stay on top of this.

Joerg Kraemer

Many market participants are hoping for the FDP to take on the role of a pacemaker, a force that pushes for reforms, Merkel wouldn't be able to push through her reform program.

George Lucas

Man your ships and may the force be with you.

John Monroe

Seagate is the most formidable force in the hard-disk-drive industry. This just makes them a more formidable force.

Yosef Lapid

Security forces must respond with strength to the terrible attack.

Denis Diderot

Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.

Jim Newberry

Many of the interests the students have are similar to the interests of the community.

Mario Cuomo

Scott Stringer has a record of standing up to special interests and getting results for the people of Manhattan. I know a real reformer when I see one and Scott Stringer is the real deal.

Max Mathurin

Now that the president has been elected, the political interests at stake during the legislative vote are huge.

Madeline Albright

NATO'S fundamental purpose -- safeguarding the ideals, interests and territory of its members -- is unchanging,

Steve Johnson

Basically, it's the tourist trade that interests China,

Dave Fouch

She councils me just to see how lucky I am to have two sons who share the same interests I do.

Zeng Qinghong

The prosperity of ASEAN accords with the interests of China,

Clint Eastwood

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

Victor LaValle

Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.

Todd Shaw

We're still negotiating, trying to get lending terms that are favorable. These are very complicated transactions, and when you have to start from scratch, it doesn't get done overnight.

Ba Shusong

Raising the lending rate is the first tightening of the controls.

George Herbert

Lend only what you can afford to lose.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

I, who ne'erWent for myself a begging, go a borrowing,And that for others. Borrowing's much the sameAs begging; just as lending upon usuryIs much the same as thieving.

Tom Bennett

I have the sort of temperament where I try not to over think things, I don't get flustered and I don't panic. I'm not overly neurotic.

Benmont Tench

I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player for the Heartbreakers. And I've been the right piano and organ player for a lot of sessions that I've been called on.

Nancy Marchand

I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.

Pat Riley

He wants to play, he wants to be out there. We're not being overly cautious, he's got a problem and we just want to treat it. We want to get it right.

Jon Alterman

People were overly optimistic. And now people are overly pessimistic.

Bob Bartlett

The reaction to Rita was overly positive, and we're now getting a better sense of what is shut in,

Wayne Andrews

We're not overly concerned. I wouldn't have even done my own house.

Tomika Ferguson

I was overly excited. I did not know how to act, and I could not stop smiling until I got to Arkansas.

Charles Sturcken

We don't give this out to the public, but we're not overly concerned.

Jeff Koenings

My first response --- shock and awe. It's like, Where did this come from?

Larry Steach

When this all started, I didn't know what to expect. But, the response has been phenomenal.

Barbara Smith

I'd like to see the developers' response to the neighborhood's concerns.

Shaukat Aziz

We are satisfied with the response but we want more,

William Shawcross

Writing or talking about famine and the world's response to it is not very easy.

Phil Harding

We have had a tremendous response from our dealers and customers.

Jeff Friedman

Well, our response is for the negotiating team, during negotiations.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.

Kurt Vonnegut

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.