Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth.

As a minister, you shouldn't imagine you know better than the technical experts in your ministry. In the end you're there to apply the political stamp of approval.

What can you do in order to save your own banks?

Macroeconomic adjustment programmes are tailor-made to the situation of the country concerned and no models or templates are used.

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself from those inadequacies.

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn't be any taboos in bed.

When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.

Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it.

When God forgives our sin, he is not changing his mind about us; he is changing our mind about him.

The idea is to develop sympathy for your own confusion.

I think that's what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it's so honest.

O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken, By Thy wide grace show me Thy narrow gate.