Tarp Quotes:

I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.

- Nancy Pelosi

topic: Newspapers, Tarp

These people in the establishment have been telling us they're the ones to fix everything and everything they've tried to fix, they've botched - TARP, the recession fix such as the stimulus bill. Look at the college - college education is an impediment because of how much it costs. A college education is no longer a step up.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: "Rush Limbaugh on rift that threatens the Republican Party; Mitt Romney talks Trump attack, future of the GOP". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. March 6, 2016.

topic: College, People, Looks, Tarp, Recessions

The TARP program was nevertheless necessary to keep banks from collapsing in a cascade of failures.

- Mitt Romney

source: "Romney Speaks! My Chat With Mitt" by James Pethokoukis, money.usnews.com. March 2, 2009.

topic: Program, Cascade, Nevertheless, Tarp

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

- George W. Bush

topic: Government, People, Would Be, Tarp

The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant future. Keeping them TARP-stuffed is the key to control.

- Stuart Varney

source: "Obama Wants to Control the Banks" by Stuart Varney, www.wsj.com. April 4, 2009.

topic: Keys, Government, Want, Chrysler, Tarp

On domestic policy, Donald Trump agreed with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the Wall Street bailout, the TARP bailout of big bank. I think the government ought to be standing with mainstream, with working men and women. And then you put on top of that the ethical issues, whether it is refusing to release his taxes. And that's a real problem.

- Ted Cruz

source: "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 28, 2016.

topic: Wall, Real, Men, Ethical Issues, Domestic Policy

Tea Party people know that I stood against the Wall Street scam from Day One, that I voted against TARP, that I voted against repealing Glass-Steagall Act that kept these guys under some control.

- Russ Feingold

topic: Wall, Party, Glasses, Repealing, Tarp

I passionately disagreed with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's plan to bail out the banks by using a public fund called the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to help banks take toxic assets off their balance sheets. I argued that it would be much better to put the money where the hole was and replenish the equity of the banks themselves.

- George Soros

topic: Balance, Toxic, Relief, Balance Sheets, Tarp

When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion price tag was a new kind of model.

- John Podhoretz

topic: Team, Tag, Kind, Tarp

So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure.

- Edward Whitacre, Jr.

source: "Ed Whitacre: Time for 'Government Motors' to Hit the Road". www.wsj.com. September 19, 2012.

topic: Government, Long, Labels, Tarp

TARP is funded by taxpayers, so there are many rules about how that money can and can't be used. The result: GM spends an awful lot of time checking in with the people who administer TARP over everything from hiring to executive compensation and management. For a global company, that adds up to a lot of distraction.

- Edward Whitacre, Jr.

source: "Ed Whitacre: Time for 'Government Motors' to Hit the Road" by Edward Whitacre, Jr., www.wsj.com. September 19, 2012.

topic: People, Awful, Add, Executive Compensation, Tarp

Not every company went bankrupt. Not every bank needed TARP [Troubled Asset Relief Program]. So I'm very proud that JPMorgan, throughout that time period, was completely steadfast. We bought Bear Stearns because we thought we were helping the situation. We didn't cut and run.

- Jamie Dimon

source: "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

topic: Running, Cutting, Relief, Tarp, Time Periods