Financial Meltdown Quotes

#1. Some 8,000 nonviolent Occupy protesters were arrested across the nation. Not one banker or investor went to jail for causing the 2008 financial meltdown. The disparity of justice mirrored the disparity in incomes and the disparity in power.

Chris Hedges

#2. The problem with cap-and-trade and programs such as carbon capture and storage is that they all assume that business as usual can continue. The financial meltdown and peak oil has pretty much demonstrated that business as usual's not going to work.

Andrew Nikiforuk

#3. So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt?

George W. Bush

#4. Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.

Max Brooks

#5. Ours is a world which feels so unsettled and dangerous in large ways, whether it's terrorism or global financial meltdown or climate change - huge things that affect us deeply, and yet things about which we can do, individually, very little.

Sarah Waters

#6. There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.

Rahm Emanuel

#7. Opportunity is a door to success

Osunsakin Adewale

#8. If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run.

Ha-Joon Chang

#9. We think of lions and wolves as savage because they kill; but they must kill, or starve. Humans kill other animals for sport, to satisfy their curiosity, to beautify their bodies, and to please their palates.

Peter Singer

#10. Don't be afraid to ask people 'why,' 'what if.' Don't be afraid to attack your career. Get in the game, don't stay on the sidelines.

Beth Mowins

#11. We do not run government on whims of an individual, our progress is reforms driven, our reforms are policy driven and our policies are people driven.

Narendra Modi

#12. Most things in life sound better than they are except for blackmail.

Lesley Kagen

#13. There are two different stories in horror: internal and external. In external horror films, the evil comes from the outside, the other tribe, this thing in the darkness that we don't understand. Internal is the human heart.

John Carpenter

#14. It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.

Rupert Murdoch

#15. Search marketing: If they can't find it, they can't buy it.

Mike Moran

#16. now, I am doing penance for my selfishness. Who knew I'd see the world through the drain of an old sink and across the surface of a wooden chopping board? But here it is, and here I am. In my zeal to be a part of a grand adventure, I traded my mother's kitchen for this one." Sister

Adriana Trigiani

#17. When you strive to possess, there is always a reward waiting for you both in heaven and on earth.

Sunday Adelaja

#18. Writers ... write to give reality to experience.

Archibald MacLeish

#19. A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.

Bennett Miller