Collin C. Peterson Quotes

The turn of the century was the age of the banker, so much so that the leading bankers of the day had become legendary figures in the public imagination-vast, overshadowing behemoths whose colossal power seemed to reach everywhere.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

The economy may be complex, but Americans understand that the Wall Street banks control an outsized portion of the economy and that they have an outsized interest in their own profits.

What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.

The New York Federal Reserve is a tool of the big banks.

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

And as a matter of fact, governments don't act, governments only react. The bankers make the decisions, and then governments decide how are we going to adjust to this. Government can't do anything unless the bank gives them the money to do it.

The more money you take away from families is the less power that family has. And that's a basic power.

I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.

What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks.

I care not who forms the government of a country, so long as I control the purse strings.

The economy controls the politicians far more than the politicians control the economy.

Modern power depends on money and guns. And we have the most of both.

All those who controlled the moneyed institutions of the state either did not choose to do business with us, or they feared the ill will of a certain class of businessmen who considered their interests antagonistic to those of our order.

Year after year the Banker's slice of the world's asset baskets has been growing and growing. The Banker has become almighty.

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes.

Money has a language of its own.

Some of the people in finance touch enormous parts of the economy.

We've delegated politics to bankers. The European Central Bank is inside Deutsche Bank, and Deutsche Bank is inside the Bundesbank.

There are party leaders, big corporation, Wall Street. There are very wealthy individuals who kind of represent where the Democratic Party, the official Democratic Party was and to some extent still is.

Capital dictates the fate of humanity.

The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people who run things. Those who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by, and tolerated purely at the whim of, those who hold economic power. If the parent corporation doesn't want you to know something, it won't be on the news. Period. Or, at the very least, it will be slanted to suit them, and then rarely followed up.