Imf's Quotes

#1. Say goodbye to the IMF once and for all as the IMF's conditions enriches the rich and impoverishes the poor.

Imran Khan

#2. Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.

Yoshihiko Noda

#3. The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.

Mark Rutte

#4. The IMF was a more formal and less fun place to work than Treasury. The meetings were endless, with crushing bureaucracy, an intrusive and fractious executive board, an appalling amount of paper, and a lot of factional conflict among various fiefdoms.

Timothy F. Geithner

#5. I have full confidence in the IMF. It is a very strong international institution.

Jose Manuel Barroso

#6. The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.

Frances O'Grady

#7. My congratulations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution.

David Rockefeller

#8. If the IMF is correct (a big if), China will be the planet's No.1 economy by 2016. That means whoever's elected in November next year will be the last president of the United States to preside over the world's dominant economic power.

Mark Steyn

#9. Korea's early repayment of the full amount of loans from the IMF is a major milestone.

Horst Koehler

#10. But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.

Kim Dae-jung

#11. We do have some assistance from the World Bank but not from the IMF. We are not borrowing yet, but we are considering, in the future, borrowing from the Kuwait Fund to support our infrastructure development.

Jose Ramos-Horta

#12. We simply cannot afford any further delay in providing the IMF with the resources it requires to help contain the threat of further financial and political instability around the world.

Robert Rubin

#13. There were times when there were riots in Africa, demonstrations against the IMF because of the policy advice they were giving, the conditionalities they were imposing, and the difficulties that arose out of the implementation of those conditionalities.

Jakaya Kikwete

#14. Argentina & Iraq have been decimated by the same process with different weapons; an IMF cheque & cruise missiles.

Arundhati Roy

#15. Only after Eden agreed to leave Egypt unconditionally did Eisenhower arrange a billion-dollar rescue package from the IMF and the Export-Import Bank.

Niall Ferguson

#16. I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon.

Hugo Chavez

#17. Conservatives believe that international institutions such as the United Nations are anti-American and anti-Israeli cabals. Progressives do not like the economic medicine that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank force down the throats of developing countries.

Michael Ignatieff

#18. The IMF is set up to deal with liquidity crises.

Steve Hanke

#19. The IMF economists were doubtless shaken by the extreme failures of their prescriptions over many years, and by the collapse of the intellectual edifice of economic theory on which they were relying.

Noam Chomsky

#20. I found myself doing extraordinary things that arent in the textbooks. Then the IMF asked the U.S. to please print money. The whole world is now practicing what they have been saying I should not. I decided that God had been on my side and had come to vindicate me.

Gideon Gono

#21. By the way, the European Union Member States together - even the euro area Member States together - are by far the biggest contributors to the IMF.

Jose Manuel Barroso

#22. The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.

Jeffrey Sachs

#23. The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

Jose Saramago

#24. The IMF is the International Mafia Federation. They're the loansharks of last resort.

Gerald Celente

#25. I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.

Jeffrey Sachs

#26. IMF is really designed to protect creditors not debtors.

David Graeber

#27. Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.

Cynthia McKinney

#28. International institutions like the Security Council, the General Assembly, the G20, the BRICs, the IMF, etc., continue to be little more than an extension of the (increasingly conflicting) values and interests of member states.

Ian Bremmer

#29. The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.

Abu Bakar Bashir

#30. China is beginning to act more like a world citizen. We need China to be more active on the world stage. For example, we should want China to be a bigger participant and a bigger shareholder in the IMF. We should want it to be an even more active participant in the G8 and G20.

Roger Altman

#31. The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.

Che Guevara