Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Bernanke

Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the extreme fragility of the system, there was a significant risk that A.I.G.'s failure could have sparked a global banking panic.

Give Cut Bank all the credit. The do a super job with their defense. They took away what we wanted to run, and on offense, they executed so well. If they didn't get the shot they wanted, the passed it around until they did.

Free State played well in the Standard Bank Cup and peaked then, but we haven't peaked yet.

Jacques Chirac

France proposes mobilizing the European Investment Bank to double the capacity of research,

Free banking has provided the greatest growth over the last two years.

From here on in we can start looking at some of the bank stocks (as targets), because investment banks are going to start looking at banks going in the reverse direction. Everybody wants to be a one-stop shop.

Fundamentally, we believe that at this point in the cycle, after one year of sub-trend growth and facing the prospect of one to two more years of the same, and with inflation peaking, the bank shouldn't be tightening policy further,

Paul Wolfowitz

From the World Bank point of view, it's a welcome possibility that contributions to the IDA would be increased and facilitated.

Noam Chomsky

From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over whatever it wants in the West Bank, maintaining the brutal siege on Gaza, separating Gaza from the West Bank and, of course, occupying the Syrian Golan heights, all with full U.S. support.

James Smith

If banks needed to borrow money, no problem, all the normal rules were suspended.

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.

Manny Acta

I don't want the word patriotism being brought up over here because of these guys being professional and (some) other teams are not. Because when you have $100 million in the bank and a contract and you leave everything and take a chance and come over here and play for your country, if that isn't patriotism, I don't know what it is.

James Mason

If a bank reruns a credit report and sees a late mortgage payment or any change in the borrowers financial picture, it would be reason for the lender to withdraw the loan.

Jim Leach

If a bank doesn't have its software changes by this time next year you will not be in a position to test the following year for the year 2000. Most of the work has to be done within a year so that the testing can proceed in the following year.

Matt Cullen

I don't think it's anything we'll store away in our memory banks for any reason. I think that when you start a playoff series, it's like starting fresh. It's seven games for everything.

Robert Parry

I don't think it's a good idea to take a lot of cash out of your bank and put it under your mattress. Why? Because the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. does insure up to $100,000 of your money in the bank -- but it doesn't insure your mattress.

I live over two miles away from the bank and I am in poor health to be able to walk that distance, it is totally out of the question.

I have never believed that central banks should have rigid inflation targeting. That is not a good thing to stabilize. There is nothing in economic theory to back this.

I feel very comfortable with where we are with the Hudson United conversion that we could look at banks right now.

Alan Greenspan

I find it difficult to believe, for example, that the crises that arose in Thailand and Korea would have been nearly so virulent had their central banks published data prior to the crises on net reserves instead of the not very informative gross reserve positions only,

I did go bankrupt because everybody copied me - every single industry. But genuinely, it doesn't matter. I swear I don't care.

I can't say enough about how thrilled we are with the new partnership being formed by Peoples Bank and the Ski to Sea Race. We look forward to working with Peoples Bank to make Whatcom County's premier event bigger and better than ever.

I don't even know what a bankruptcy risk score is.

I'd like to think that this is a bottoming out and people are starting to see the value that a lot of these banking stocks offer. I'd like to think there's some bottoming out and strength, but in general the market is nervous.

I do not think the ministry will actually interfere in he markets. But other central banks such as Korea's may do so, helping the dollar rebound.

David Healy

I don't buy the bankruptcy talk. I think they have the resources to get through this. The stock has gotten so banged up, it could be an interesting speculation play. But I'm not going to try it myself.

I'd be awfully surprised if the Federal Reserve starts taking its cue from the central bank of Sweden or the Bank of England.

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.

I am excited by Bank One's powerful franchise. Together, we will help our stock realize its value as we continue the momentum of our three strong lines of business and continue to rebuild our large credit card business.

Richard Byrd

I am delighted to join an institution that is so passionate about helping its clients, ... City National is clearly the place to be for superior private banking and wealth management services.

My initial reaction is no, it will not bankrupt the companies. Florida passed a law that if companies have to post a bond to pay huge punitive damages, it's capped. But that law has not been tested.

Pierce Brosnan

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

One motivation that could be at the back of European minds is the danger of the American banks coming in.