#ate

Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time. ↗

— James Iha

#dog #domestic #friends #go #grocery

There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#basic #causing #crises #damage #economy

Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and in the infrastructure of the financial system. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#both #built #crisis #designed #financial

Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#although #bear #before #broader #built

The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment, private. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#help #investment #led #make #need

In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#concentrated #crises #financial #financial crises #financial system

It is very important for people to understand that the United States of America and no country around the world can devalue its way to prosperity, to be competitive. It is not a viable, feasible strategy, and we will not engage in it. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#around #competitive #country #devalue #engage

Ultimately you want to do something in life that people will remember. And with Buffy, I did that. I don't feel like I need to achieve something. I just do it because it's fun. And that takes the pressure off. ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#because #buffy #did #feel #fun

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#him #person #politician #politics #statesman

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#decks #ever #find #greater #piracy