Quotes about Bank Accountability

Andrea Leadsom

If the government has any courage, it will punish those at the top of failed banks. Accountability is critical in every area of human endeavour - there has to be a penalty for failure; otherwise, it's only a matter of time before the economic pain our banks have caused to so many innocent businesses and homeowners is forgotten.

Sheila Bair

Our job is to protect bank customers, not banks.

She was the only major Federal Official who did not support the bailouts of the banks and their bondholders and shareholders. Not one of her insured bank depositors lost their insured funds in the financial crisis. She protected them all but would not protect the banks themselves. Other officials did that and the following year the bank executives took the bailout money and paid themselves and others in the bank huge bonuses when the banks lost billions.

Hillary Clinton

Wall Street can never be allowed to threaten main street again. No bank can be too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail.

Vince Cable

Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.

Stephen Fincher

Transparency at the Export Import Bank has long been a concern and must be addressed.

George Osborne

[Banks] have a clear obligation to help get this country off its addiction to debt because they sure as hell helped to get this country addicted to debt.

Anne Robinson

I'd make banks more accountable. I think they should separate totally the personal banking arm with whatever else they are playing around with.

Muhammad Yunus

In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"

Bank Accountability Quotes