“The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the Wo...” — Jose Saramago Quote

“The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.”

“In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.”

“Cuidado, caín, hablas demasiado, el señor está oyéndote y tarde o temprano te castigará,”

“I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.”

“Assim é, mas a vantagem da igreja é que, embora às vezes o não pareça, ao gerir o que está no alto, governa o que está em baixo.”

“Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?”

“People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily.”

“Hobbies-wise, I love to carp fish. I like to be on the bank when I have some downtime.”

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

“As soon as I got to L.A., there was this big crime where these guys tunnelled underneath a bank on a three-day weekend and went right up to the vault and emptied everything out.”

“Of course you bank on your experience, but as a sounding board. It isn't that you write down what happens to you every day. You wouldn't be a writer if you did that.”

“I think the most important thing to understand about credit derivatives and their use at JPMorgan is they served a number of different purposes. First and foremost, they were a tool which initially was seen as being useful in managing the bank's own risk management challenges.”