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.

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.

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

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.

Do not mistake a leader's meekness for weakness.

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

Joy is the best makeup.

You gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in.

We are in danger of valuing most highly those things we can measure most accurately, which means that we are often precisely wrong rather than approximately right

If people throw stones at you, pick 'em up and build something.

Be brave. Don't be afraid to be stupid.

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

I don't know how to run your life. I don't know how to run your life. I don't have the authority to run your life. And the Constitution doesn't permit me to run your life.

Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.