Rating Agencies Quotes

#1. The rating agencies, who were paid fat fees by Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms for each deal they rated, pronounced 80 percent of the new tower of debt triple-A.

Michael Lewis

#2. Today, credit rating agencies rate companies, countries and bonds.

Mike Fitzpatrick

#3. Imagine the big rating agencies as three competitive saloons standing side by side, with each free to set its own drinking age. Before long, nine-year-olds would be downing bourbon

Roger Lowenstein

#4. We have new rules that give shareholders the ability to vote on executive compensation. We have new rules for asset-backed securities. We have new rules around credit rating agencies.

Mary Schapiro

#5. We're only one of a few states that have maintained our Triple-A bond rating from the major rating agencies.

Bob Holden

#6. Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn't do the only job they're supposed to have, the only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.

Al Franken

#7. The walks met a need: they were a release from the tightly regulated mental environment of work, and once I discovered them as therapy, they became the normal thing, and I forgot what life had been like before I started walking,

Teju Cole

#8. You still need to work on a lot of things," Diane did not say. "I'm sorry your father isn't here," she also did not say. "But I am trying so, so hard. I am, Josh. I am, I am, I am," she did not say. As far as things go, her self-control was pretty good.

Joseph Fink

#9. What I wouldn't have given for this moment to be happening without her fucking boyfriend there.

Paula Garner

#10. I don't think I'm unusual in that, in my 20s, like many people, I felt invincible.

Amanda Lindhout

#11. I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.

Dana Schutz

#12. People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

Paul Auster

#13. Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

Pythagoras

#14. Marshall Rosenberg talks about how we can create peace in the communities we work with. He's been traveling to warring nations to create peace within those countries.

Sandra Cisneros

#15. You'll find that there will be an investment for every season, but there will be no investment for all seasons.

Venita VanCaspel

#16. Unless you dream, you're not going to achieve anything.

Richard Branson