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Jamie Dimon
"That's why I'm richer than you."

JPMorgan Chase chairman and CEO, who drew laughter with the controversial remark to analyst Mike Mayo after a question about whether affluent customers might feel more comfortable going to a competitor that has higher capital ratios

Christine Lagarde
"Make no mistake: without concerted action, the very future of our planet is in peril."

International Monetary Fund managing director, declaringclimate change the greatest economic challenge of this century

Sheila Bair
"Government's role should not be to rig the game in favor of 'the haves' but to make sure 'the have-nots' are given a fair shot."

Former chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., in a New York Times op-ed urging fellow Republicans to take on the issue of excessive income inequality that she blames on government actions such as tax breaks for the rich and central bank policies

James Bullard
"Fed policy is very easy and it's going to stay easy for a long time."

St. Louis Federal Reserve president, in a CNBC interview that calmed a skittish market, after minutes from the Federal Reserve meeting showed some officials arguing to reduce or end quantitative easing soon

Dennis Gartman
"Where we were buyers of equities previously we must disdain them henceforth."

Editor of the Gartman Letter, declaring that the bull run is over, after the release of the Fed minutes and the ensuing stock market plunge

Eric Rosengren
"Minimum standards for large institutions may be too low."

Boston Federal Reserve president, on the 2.5 percent Basel III capital surcharge for systematically important financial institutions

Floyd Abrams
"There was no fraud. The ratings that were issued were believed by the people that issued them."

Lead attorney for Standard & Poor's, so far the only credit rating agency facing a U.S. Justice Department civil lawsuit over highly rated mortgage securities that quickly tanked and contributed to the financial crisis

James Cobb
"There is a glass ceiling to our banking. In other industries, small players can cause a major distraction to bigger ones. But it doesn't happen in banking."

Finance director for the Arbuthnot Banking Group in London, saying that new regulations are hindering the ability of small U.K. banks to expand lending