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David Vitter
If "megabanks are so big the Justice Department will think twice and three and five and ten times about prosecuting them in a way they never would for other institutions, I think the American people's reaction to that is, these banks are not just 'too big to fail' or 'too big to prosecute' - the bottom line is they're just too big," Vitter said in March.
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Jim Bullard
"You could have smaller, not tiny, but smaller institutions that were small enough that you could let them fail and let them be innovative enough to sort of win the global battle."
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Charlie Munger
"If you increase the capital requirements and let them do what they want, they will just get in trouble again."
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George Will
"By breaking up the biggest banks, conservatives will not be putting asunder what the free market has joined together. Government nurtured these behemoths by weaving an improvident safety net and by practicing crony capitalism. Dismantling them would be a blow against government that has become too big not to fail."
Robert Reich
"Let's also stop hoping Wall Street will mend itself. What just happened at J.P. Morgan - along with its leader's cavalier dismissal followed by lame reassurance - reveals how fragile and opaque the banking system continues to be, why Glass-Steagall must be resurrected, and why the Dallas Fed's recent recommendation that Wall Street's giant banks be broken up should be heeded."
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Peggy Noonan
"Republicans should go to the populist right on the issue of bank breakup. Too big to fail is too big to continue. The megabanks have too much power in Washington and too much weight within the financial system. People think the GOP is for the bankers. The GOP should upend this assumption. In this case good policy is good politics."
Neil Barofsky
"We have to
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Elizabeth Warren
"How big do the biggest banks have to get before we consider breaking them up? They're 30% bigger now than they were five years ago. Do they have to double in size, triple in size, quadruple in size before we talk about breaking up the biggest financial institutions?"
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