Ben Bernanke Quotes

Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.

The Tea Party grew out of indignation over the Wall Street bailout - an indignation shared by the vast majority of Americans. But the Tea Party ended up directing its ire at government rather than at big business and Wall Street.

Chet Edwards votes for every bailout and against ending any bailout!

The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it.

Public anger over bank bailouts was as much about fairness as the billions of dollars spent.

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

Let me just try to give you sort of the intuitive one here on the stimulus funds. If you have a two-person economy - let's imagine we have two farms, and that's the whole world, just two farms. If one of those farmers gets unemployment benefits, who do you think pays for him? Am I going way over your heads today?

Most of us are aware of the sacrificial slaughter of Bear Sterns. Some people call it a bailout, but I call it a handout - a government handout to some of the richest people on Earth, paid for by American taxpayers.

From a business perspective, we are trying to propose some suggestions to the government. Not only to benefit Fosun, but to benefit all private enterprises, especially proposals to help small to medium-sized companies.

Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.

I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.

We bailed out the S&Ls. Why can't we bail out my city?

The Bush White House sold out the birthright of the Republican Party by bailing out Wall Street.

The thing that the government does very well is to write checks. Get rid of all the bureaucracy and programs and just write check [to the poor].

The charge that [Tim] Geithner advocated taxpayer relief for Wall Street regardless of the community’s sins, will probably follow him to his grave.

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.

As American citizens, if you believe all banks were bailed out, you would hate banks. I would, too.

If you think about those bailouts that happened in 2008, that was a situation in which the government gave, at our expense, enormous sums of money to some of the richest people who have ever existed on Earth.

When we see the banks get bailed out with seemingly no consequences while ordinary people pay the price with job and wage cuts through austerity measures, who could blame a person for wondering where the loyalties of their elected leaders really lie?

The government cannot become a bailout organization for companies on the verge of bankruptcy.

Government bailouts are like potato chips: You can't stop with just one.

I think there is need for economic stimulus... and government can help make that up in a very difficult time.

No, I’m not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money.