“Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Give a man a sub-prime fish loan and you're in business, buddy.”

— Stephen Colbert

A parody of the "Give a man a fish..." proverb alluding to the subprime mortgage crisis of the aughts on The Colbert Report (14 May 2008)

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