You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.
I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.
I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.
My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out.
A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.
Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I threw.
Until spring training in 1946, the only time I pitched was in 1945 in the GI World Series.
My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.
Herr Schuster: [when Lola arrives at the bank for the "third" time] Are you here at last, honey?
Zeke: [to pigs] Get in there, before I make a dime bank out of you.
You know, you cut taxes for the rich sometimes and it sits in a bank account. You cut taxes for the middle class, they will spend the money.
The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!
It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under their mattress. It's not that they are tight with money - they just don't trust anyone.
But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.
When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.
When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.
The Congo is very wealthy from oil money but is not paying its debts and at the same time is applying for special status at the World Bank. That's shocking and disingenuous.
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.
We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
