It is clear that too many bankers think that laws are for the little people.
“It is clear that too many bankers think that laws are for the little people.”
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It is clear that too many bankers think that laws are for the little people.
“It is clear that too many bankers think that laws are for the little people.”
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“It is clear that too many bankers think that laws are for the little people.”
“The welfare state, which grew out of post-war solidarity, has for decades been based on the principle that those who pay into the system are entitled to expect that the safety net will be there for them when they fall on hard times.”
“The financial elite do not need special laws for themselves. This is one nation and there is one criminal law.”
“You have to be very poor and desperate, or very rich, or lucky, to live in Islington. We don't have the people in the middle, the people who serve the community.”
“The Human Rights Act has not just given a voice to victims, but to the families who have to fight for the victim where the victim has died.”
“A scam is a scam. A fraud is a fraud. Different rules don't apply in the City than they do for you and me.”
“The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.”
“Harlem is not a playground for rich bankers and consultants. It's got students of all colors. It's got old people who keep history and tell tall tales.”
“Late 19th-century populists saw bankers and industrialists manipulating markets to enrich themselves at the expense of small farmers and labourers and favoured political candidates promising economic relief through free and unlimited coinage of silver.”
“There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the flag of convenience, under which ships can fly the flag of a state that has nothing to do with its owner, cargo, crew, or route.”
“If you're an original thinker, you are going get told 'no' a lot, and you have to be able to hear 'no' many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda.”