Systemically Important Quotes

#1. Greece's debts are all denominated in euros, but it isn't clear who holds how much of those debts. For that reason, the consequences of a national bankruptcy would be incalculable. Greece is just as systemically important as a major bank.

Wolfgang Schauble

#2. RE: GSEs like Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae: "creditors will continue to underprice the risk-taking of these financial institutions, overfund them, and fail to provide effective market discipline Facing prices that are too low, systemically important firms will take on too much risk."

Gary H. Stern

#3. Take either forty-eight or eighty-four pages to

Lemony Snicket

#4. If I love a song, I make it mine.

Chaka Khan

#5. A government operates and acts differently than a company. So all we want to do is get some transparency here and then determine if the deal should go forward.

Mark Foley

#6. If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.

Dave Chappelle

#7. David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting.

Geraldine Brooks

#8. You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

David Bowie

#9. Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky