If there were not derivatives, there would be no bank loans at all today, because people want to get fixed-rate 30-year loans, but banks don't want to keep 30-year loans on their books.

It sometimes seems like our financial system is set up to penalize those who know the least and have the least … It appears to me that the system has gone beyond beware to buyer be damned.

If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.

If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.

I like banks because they keep my money safe, but I don't want to talk about banks 12 times a year.

Ten or 15 years ago the IMF and the World Bank were out there making little loans here and there, but they weren't out saving the world, ... They've been unfairly criticized of doing a bad job.