William K. Black Quotes & Sayings

What's distressed me, and I think is one of the major reasons we get recurrent intensifying crises, is we seem to have lost our capacity for outrage. And it's only people getting outraged that produces really positive social change. — William K. Black

If you bring cases against powerful bankers, they will enlist their political allies and they will give very large political contributions to do that — William K. Black

Best way to rob a bank is to own one. — William K. Black

The senior bankers have obviously decided that it is in their financial interest to repeatedly violate the law. — William K. Black

Apparently modern financial regulators are vastly more sophisticated than we were as financial regulators 25 years ago - because we had never figured out that the key to financial stability was leaving felons in charge of the largest financial institutions in the world. — William K. Black