Jeroen Dijsselbloem Quotes

As Americans, we shouldn't like bailouts. Where I come from, if someone takes a risk and they're going to make the profit from that risk, they shouldn't have the taxpayer pay for the losses.

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

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.

Regulation creates a moral hazard.

I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers.

Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.

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.

It’s not the government’s job to bail out speculators.

Economic freedom is a highly desirable state -- but in bust and boom we must be prepared to face the its consequences.

We must limit the perception that some institutions are either too big or too interconnected to fail.

Government is promoting bad behavior... Do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages? This is America!

I don't take lightly ever putting the taxpayer on the line to support an institution.

If debtors can reasonably expect that the government will swoop in from time to time to bail them out, no one has any incentive to pay his debts.

When the banks grow to or when these financial institutions grow to such a size that they can't sustain themselves, or what have you, they have problems, economic problems, or financial problems, they shouldn't be able to look back to you and I, the taxpayer, to be bailed out.

It's almost 10 years since the 2008 crisis, but we all still remember the consequences of ignoring threats to the public finances.

One of the very difficult parts of the decision I made on the financial crisis was to use hardworking people's money to help prevent there to be a crisis.

Why is it possible to rescue S&L buccaneers in the early '90s and provide guidance to levered Wall Street investment bankers during the 1998 long-term capital management crisis, yet throw 2 million homeowners to the wolves in 2007?

The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others.

There are some outcomes in finance we don't want, and government should regulate that.

Businesses have no place being 'too big to fail.'

Aggression at a time when the economy was growing at substantial rates and the retail lending as an industry was growing at a substantial rate was an appropriate aggression. Caution at a time when the economic environment is so uncertain is an appropriate caution.

The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.

I turned on Wall Street for the same reason everybody else did: The American taxpayer was forced to cut mook deals to bail out guys who didn't deserve it.

I opposed the bailout of banks and car companies.

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.