Lloyd Blankfein

“We had to run things 50 times and be perfect the last 49 times before we could go that way.”

“You could put on hedges, and those hedges could be worthless tomorrow, if things go another way,”

“But in America, people do come from the projects and do that and do those things.”

“He's made a contribution if he focuses everybody's attention on the affordability and sustainability of the city.”

“Taking away the Fed's independence and making it another tool of fiscal policy … would diminish its value, just making it more expensive for the U.S. to function in the world,”

“We have to do … a better job of distributing the wealth without putting too much of a burden on what we do to generate the wealth,”

“It is a certainty that this will - that this situation will cause - will act in a way that’s similar to a rate rise in some ways. Banks will have to, you know, because of the tension, because of the pressure and uncertainties, banks will husband their equity,”