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Banking
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- What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank?1898–1956 German dramatist: The Threepenny Opera (1928) act 3, sc. 3
- We not only saved the world…Er, saved the banks.1951– British Labour statesman, Prime Minister 2007–10: speech, House of Commons, 10 December 2008
- If these things were so large, how come everyone missed them?asking why economists didn't see the credit crunch coming1926– British monarch, Queen of the United Kingdom from 1952: on a visit to the London School of Economics, in Sunday Times 9 November 2008
- A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.1874–1963 American poet: in Muscatine Journal 22 August 1961
- Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.1809–94 American physician, poet, and essayist: The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858) ch. 2
- A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.1903–2003 American comedian: In Alan Harrington Life in the Crystal Palace (1959) ‘The Tyranny of Farms’
- Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.1743–1826 American Democratic Republican statesman, 3rd President 1801–9: letter to John Taylor, 28 May 1816, in T. Jefferson Randolph (ed.) Memoirs, Correspondence & Private Papers of T. Jefferson (1829) vol. 3
- It's all just one big lie.on his investment business after it collapsed1938– American businessman: in Washington Post 13 December 2008 online ed.
- The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity.of Goldman Sachs1970– American journalist: in Rolling Stone 9–23 July 2009
