Bank Size Quotes

What we're seeing now is that greed is still alive and kicking, and banks are bigger than ever.

If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.

I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with a bank being big. In fact, there are some good arguments about universality of geography that in theory, if you have all your eggs in one little community, and some big employer goes out, that could be your downfall.

No bank should be allowed to become so big that it can blackmail governments.

After Dodd-Frank, the big banks were bigger. The small banks are fewer.

Any bank that is too big to fail is too big. Period.

Limits should be placed on how big big banks can become.

Too big to fail is too big.

If a bank's too big so that it can't fail without hurting our economy, well then, it's too big.

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.

The only way to make sure no bank is too big to fail is to make sure no bank is too big.

As long as the big banks are allowed to remain big, their political leverage over Washington will remain big. And as long as their political leverage remains big, the taxpayer and economic tab for the next mess they create will be big.

I think India's growth itself will give opportunities for Indian banks to become substantially bigger.

We are a challenger bank; let me say that once, twice, and three times if necessary because people still sometimes think of us as being very big.

Capping the size of American banks won't eliminate the needs of big businesses; it will force them to turn to foreign banks that won't face the same restrictions.

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.

If the numbers are right, ICBC [Industrial & Commercial Bank of China], which already earns nearly twice as much as JPMorgan. They'll probably be going a lot faster over time, and one day they can be a lot bigger than us.

Banks too big to fail are too big to be regulated or controlled by the Federal Government.