Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 921-24.
“We not only saved the world, er, saved the banks...”
Gordon Brown (1951) British Labour Party politician
" We not only saved the world... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7775515.stm", BBC News, 10 December 2008 <br class="br">Prime Minister
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
ME http://www.yamaguchy.netfirms.com/7897401/jefferson/eppes2.html 13:431 <br class="br">1810s, Letters to John Wayles Eppes (1813)
“If Spain goes, Europe on its own will not be big enough to save the banks.”
Nigel Farage (1964) British politician and former commodity broker
Segment from an article on the UKIP website, 31 May 2012. On the edge of social breakdown http://www.ukip.org/content/latest-news/2681-on-the-edge-of-social-breakdown <br class="br">2012
“The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.”
Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor
Kenneth Griffin (1968) American hedge fund manager
"A Wishlist for Fixing Wall Street," New York Times (May 13, 2008) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/business/13sorkin.html?ref=business.
“Americans' right to free speech should not be proportionate to their bank accounts.”
Bernie Sanders (1941) American politician, senator for Vermont
2014-09-07
Tom Udall and Bernie Sanders
The Threat to American Democracy
Politico
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/09/the-threat-to-american-democracy-110683
2010s
“There should be no bank too big to fail and no individual too big to jail.”
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
Tweet (17 January 2016) https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/688917116314120192 <br class="br">Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016)
“Economics should be under no illusion that central banking will ever become a science.”
Jürg Niehans (1919–2007) Swiss economist
Source: The theory of money, 1978, p. 296
“A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.”
Chinua Achebe book No Longer at Ease
Source: No Longer at Ease (1960), Chapter 1 (p. 17)
