Too Big To Fail Quotes

#1. The only way to make sure no bank is too big to fail is to make sure no bank is too big.

Robert Reich

#2. I'm really concerned that too-big-to-fail has become too-big-for-trial.

Elizabeth Warren

#3. Too-big-to-fail, meet small-enough-to-jail.

Matt Taibbi

#4. We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail.

George Osborne

#5. The Greek debt issue, for example, is such a threat because if that country ever defaulted, it might cause some bank that's 'too big to fail' to actually fail.

Jerry A. Webman

#6. Forget about banks that are too big to fail; the focus should be on cities, municipalities and countries that are too big to fail.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#7. You can't have some institutions that are protected by the law, not allowed to fail, and not held to account, and all the other companies in America are allowed to fail. You can't have equal justice under law and too big to fail.

Eric Schneiderman

#8. The banks that each of you gentlemen cater to have been allowed to become too big. Not too big to fail, as you have said in the past, but destined to fail because they are too big.

Kenneth Eade

#9. At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time.

Matt Taibbi

#10. We're still under the weight of this impression that the ocean is too big to fail, that the planet is too big to fail.

Sylvia Earle

#11. If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.

Barry Ritholtz

#12. I don't think anybody's too big to fail. I think the - I think if what you've got is sort of a large number of institutions who are going to fail, then that ends up affecting the system.

Marc Lasry

#13. Any bank that is too big to fail is too big. Period.

Robert Reich

#14. If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

Bernie Sanders

#15. Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.

Sarah Palin

#16. We support too big to fail. We want the government to be able to take down a big bank like JP Morgan and it could be done. We think Dodd-Frank, which we supported parts of, gave the FDIC the authority to take down a big bank.

Jamie Dimon

#17. I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.

Alan Moore

#18. Too Big To Fail is nothing compared to Too Holy To Fall.

Toba Beta

#19. If you have 'too big to fail' for cities or for states, and they believe they'll be bailed out, they'll continue to make unwise decisions.

Rand Paul

#20. I think changing the Democratic Party platform [at the convention] is a great place to start. It should include expanding Social Security, a $15 minimum wage, and breaking up too-big-to-fail banks on Wall Street - among other Sanders priorities.

Ben Wikler

#21. This was yet another consequence of turning Wall Street partnerships into public corporations: It turned them into objects of speculation. It was no longer the social and economic relevance of a bank that rendered it too big to fail, but the number of side bets that had been made upon it.

Michael Lewis

#22. I'm probably a believer in abandoning too-big-to-fail firms or breaking them up in some way so that the system can try to take care of itself. I imagine you're not going to get there, and therefore, I suspect regulation is what's going to be required.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#23. The term 'too big to fail' must be excised from our vocabulary.

Jamie Dimon

#24. The heart of the 2008 financial crisis was a coterie of reckless financial executives, working for too-big-to-fail financial companies, who were handsomely compensated for taking risks that almost ruined the economy when they failed.

Gary Weiss

#25. Most Ohioans would be surprised to know that the same Wall Street megabanks which received bailouts from taxpayers in 2009 also receive taxpayer-funded advantages today simply because of their 'too big to fail' status.

Sherrod Brown

#26. Rather than justice for all, we are evolving into a system of justice for those who can afford it. We have banks that are not only too big to fail, but too big to be held accountable.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

#27. What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.

John Podhoretz

#28. You can sum up what has killed capitalism in four words: too big to fail.

Gerald Celente

#29. Wall Street can never be allowed to threaten main street again. No bank can be too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail.

Hillary Clinton

#30. If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.

George P. Shultz

#31. We talk about institutions that are too big to fail - I think the story is as much about people who think they are too big to fail.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#32. Obama isn't just too big to fail. He's too big to know. Obama is so vital to the country and to the world, he must be kept out of the loop in order to save him from his failed presidency.

Rush Limbaugh

#33. Quite often very talented people FAIL because they believe they are too big to do the little things, while the most successful amongst us are quite willing to do the little things. They truly are BIG people.

Bob Proctor

#34. There are many people who have big plans but their big plans never come true. The reason is, too many people have big plans but fail to keep their small agreements.

Robert Kiyosaki

#35. She was like a bank too big in her mother's economy to fail,

Jonathan Franzen

#36. You know how alchoholics who go to AA are always using that phrase "one day at a time"? They say that because to say "I will never drink again" is just too damn much. It's big an hard and bound to fail.

Cheryl Strayed