"Tim Geithner has no financial skills. The only reason he is there [the Treasury Secretary] is to protect Goldman Sachs."
Interview with Chris Whalen of Institutional Risk Analytics on TheStreet.com
“Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power. The sudden disaster that requires the end of checks and balances, the dissolution of opposition parties, the suspension of freedom of expression, the right to a fair trial, and so on, is the oldest trick in the Hitlerian book. Do not fall for it.”
Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny