Banking Reform Quotes

#1. 'Excessive regulation in the banking reform bill will destroy a substantial part of our bond-distributing machinery. Can anyone expect that a step of this kind will improve the quality of our long-term investments?'

Barry Ritholtz

#2. Repeal the entire Banking Act of 1933, and Austrian School economists will cheer, especially if the current system were replaced by a 100%-reserve competitive banking with no central bank. That banking reform would give us a sound money system, meaning no more business cycle, bailouts, or inflation.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#3. It's gonna be fine in the end. If it's not fine, it is not the end.

Morra Quatro

#4. Sam Snead did to the tee-shot what Roger Bannister did to the four-minute mile.

Byron Nelson

#5. On Sunday, the president flies to the Azores islands to attend a summit with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Aznar, and here's my prediction: Bush gets voted off.

Craig Kilborn

#6. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness and the happiness of others.

Israelmore Ayivor

#7. Contemplation, rather than action; that seemed to be my lot in life, and I was ashamed of it even as I craved it.

Melanie Benjamin

#8. [Saddam] built up a massive war machine while neglecting the basic needs of his own people.

George W. Bush

#9. You can't legislate sobriety.

Robert Zemeckis

#10. Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if they are.

Will Rogers

#11. The brightest light makes the blackest mark.

Henry Holmes Smith

#12. The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting.

William Kirby

#13. Throughout the 19th century, when there was a laissez-faire mentality and insufficient regulation, you had one crisis after another. Each crisis brought about some reform. That is how central banking developed.

George Soros

#14. He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.

Dejan Stojanovic

#15. People live and die by nonsense. It's not what is so much as what people think is.

Isaac Asimov

#16. Are they beautiful?
The lines left from suffering,
Scars of emptiness.

Tyler Knott Gregson