Quotes About Institutions

If you're looking at the people who head the institutions, there are very few African Americans or people of colour. I'm talking about the major theatres that position themselves as serving all audiences. What you find is, by and large, people who are shaping what we see, and the people who are the tastemakers are white.

You can't look back at the worst financial crisis of our lifetimes that started in 2008 and not have some important lessons about the critical nature of oversights in financial markets and institutions.

A lot has been done to improve safety and soundness and confidence in financial markets and financial institutions, a lot of which was necessary.

It is wrong when we, in effect, throw safe and sound financial institutions into the same category with banks and lenders that climbed too far out on a limb with no way to return.

I was fascinated by what happens when government institutions fail and citizens take the law into their own hands.

Bishops need to resist the defensiveness that institutions often fall back on in crisis moments.

I'll say that technology will make revolutions start happening faster, but it'll make them harder to finish. Technology can't create leaders and cause institutions to appear.

Institutions need a lifetime to realize their potential.

I actually thought that the marketplace was pretty imbalanced when the consumer bureau was first created and financial institutions did not have someone looking carefully over their shoulder to look after the interest of consumers.

Since leaving DB, I have participated in many conferences and swish events that other financial institutions have held for their women's groups.

The E.U., its institutions, structure and ways of working are an anachronism.

As an NFL analyst, my job was to watch countless hours of game film and critique NFL coaches and that's what I've been doing the last 10 years. And there are coaches that I question in the NFL, and at other big collegiate institutions.

Our history tells us that public institutions evolve through a process of bargaining between the state and groups in society.

We engage in the public institutions of work and school and club and team, because it is there that we find meaning and purpose. But sometimes when we engage, we find confrontation not affirmation.

Every institution has its own dignity, and if people don't respect the dignity of those institutions, it affects the whole system.

Cultural arenas and institutions that were always liberal are being prodded or dragged further to the left.

Conservatism is about freedom, yes. But it is also about the institutions and attitudes that shape the responsible citizen, and ensure that freedom is a benefit to us all. Conservatism is therefore also about the limits to freedom.

Since the 70s and the 80s you see the rise of neoliberalism. The central dogma of neoliberalism was that most people are selfish. So, we started designing our institutions around that idea, our schools, our workplaces, our democracies. The government became less and less important.

We found a faith in America and a fierce determination to make our institutions work again as they have so often in our history.

We put a lot of money into Russia after the fall of the Berlin Wall, trying to support it economically, trying to support democratic institutions.

There are only a handful of educational institutions that can be called emblems of a Thinking India.

We don't want to govern the country without democratic institutions.

I think we've now gotten to this point where we're growing more and more distrustful of our institutions, be they government or corporations or otherwise.

In order for New York to not only get back to where we were, but to finally fulfill our potential as the greatest city on Earth, we need people in charge who are going to fight for the working class, and not the corrupt institutions that have taken advantage of a broken system.