“...shareholders clearly didn't ask the right questions. They didn't take their stewardship seriously, and there are huge questions to be asked about the role of shareholders in these businesses...There is a difference between the mind-set of an investor and the mind-set of an owner. In too many cases, the responsibility of ownership seems to have been ignored...There has to be a change in culture.'" In the financial institutions, they tend to say "'What can we pay out (in bonuses) rather than what can we pay in'" to society.”Alstair Darling, U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Wall Street Journal, www.wsj.com, by Patience Wheatcroft, "U.K.'s Darling Blasts Banks' Investors" (November 13, 2009, p. C2).
“November 9, 1989 will always be remembered and cherished in the United States. This anniversary is a reminder that human destiny will be what we make of it. Even in the face of tyranny people insisted that the world could change.”Barack Obama, U.S. President, Financial Times, by Bertrand Benoit, "World Leaders Gather to Mark Fall of Barrier", (November 10, 2009, p. 7)
“Riches are of value only when they enrich not just some communities, but all. As we have discovered to our cost, the problem of unbridled free markets in an unsupervised marketplace is that they can reduce all relationships to transactions, all motivations to self-interest, all sense of value to consumer choice and all sense of worth to a price tag.”Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, "English-Speaking Capitalism on Trial", The New York Times (March 29, 2009, p. 4).
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