Banks Quotes

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money. View quote
J. Edgar Hoover
I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble. View quote
Earl Warren
As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The more data banks record about us, the less we exist. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks. View quote
John C. Calhoun
My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep. View quote
William Shenstone
You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot violate the law. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks. View quote
John W. Campbell
We got a real clear picture of what they all value. Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first hundred days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, 'unchain Wall Street.' View quote
Joe Biden
Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen. (Walter Scott)
When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble. View quote
Edward Abbey
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. View quote
Charles Swindoll
All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap. View quote
Dustin Diamond
The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted. View quote
Vinoba Bhave
Good strong banks are essential for every family and for every business in the country and extraordinary times call for the bold and far-reaching solutions that the Treasury has announced today. View quote
Gordon Brown
Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good. View quote
John Adams
The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial. View quote
Martin Van Buren
I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks. I love you like a river that gives water to the thirsty and takes people where they want to go. View quote
Paulo Coelho
A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle. (Chinua Achebe)
Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless boyhood" with all that lies on the banks of the Stour; those scenes made me a painter, and I am grateful; that is, I had often thought of pictures of them before ever I touched a pencil, and your picture ['The White Horse'] is one of the strongest instance I can recollect of it. View quote
John Constable
Nation state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
The banks don't have anything - no rights whatsoever. The banks are shareholders of SLEC, and SLEC has no rights. ... I am the CEO of Formula One Management and Formula One Administration, which runs the business in F1. From this point of view, I own F1. View quote
Bernie Ecclestone
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. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz