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Shopping for a Good Deal

"We are kicking lots of tires. We are in a unique position that we are not capital constrained."

John Stumpf, chairman and CEO, Wells Fargo

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We Noticed

"We're getting killed in mortgages if you haven't noticed."

Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase (Image: Bloomberg News)

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Reason to Sell

"In this environment, it's very difficult to forecast meaningful revenue growth."

John Keach Jr., chief executive, Indiana Community Bancorp

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Big-Bank Blues

"No, I'm not happy with those revenues."

Vikram Pandit, CEO, Citigroup (Image: Bloomberg News)

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Minimizing Mea Culpas

"While we will miss [cards] volumes and give up what others might go for in the near term, one thing you can count on is we won't be apologizing for it a year or three years from now."

Richard Davis, chairman and CEO, U.S. Bancorp (Image: Bloomberg News)

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Risky Price Check

"Obviously we thought about the possibility of reputational risk when we agreed to the search [for a buyer]. We … determined that it was something we could live with."

John Kanas, CEO, BankUnited (Image: Bloomberg News)

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Why I like the Northeast

"This is a no-boom, no-bust" region.

John Koelmel, chief executive, First Niagara Financial Corp. (Image: Bloomberg News)

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Still the Bogeyman

"We continue to believe mortgage-related issues are the single largest source of risk facing the U.S. banking industry."

John Gerspach, chief financial officer, Citigroup

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Cautious Buyer

"We are very what I call aggressive in terms of looking at opportunities, but very conservative when we get down to doing the analysis. We look at a lot of stuff. We don't do much."

Kelly King, chairman and CEO, BB&T Corp. (Image: Bloomberg News)

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The Truth Hurts

"When 2011 began, it was predicted that banks would be facing an operating environment dominated by low interest rates, slow economic growth and new and challenging regulations. Well, as it turned out … 2011 was, in fact, all that it was advertised to be and then some."

James Rohr, chairman and CEO, PNC (Image: Bloomberg News)

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Don't Think of Them as Branch Closures

"As any good retailer does, we adjust our distribution."

Stephen Steinour, chairman and CEO, Huntington (Image: Michael Chu)

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M&A Mantra

"There is not pressure to do deals."

Beth Mooney, chairman and CEO, KeyCorp (Image: Dan Nelken)

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Not Always Sunny in Florida

"We're stuck with a multihundred-million dollar portfolio."

Bill Rogers, CEO, SunTrust

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Ready for More

"If [deal] opportunities come up we're in great shape."

Rene Jones, CFO, M&T

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Less-Than-Sudden impact

"We expect a slow, incremental economic recovery."

O.B. Grayson Hall Jr., CEO, Regions

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