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.

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.

For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.

I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.

Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.

There’s only two types of manager. Those who’ve been sacked and those who will be sacked in then future

Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

Miracles seldom occur in the lives of those who do not consider them possible.

In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?

It's a chore for a fellow to fear for his life more than once in an evening.

The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart.