Too Big to Fail (2011)

Actors

• George Aloi (actor)
• Edward Asner (actor)
• Luis Ayala (actor)
• Beau Baxter (actor)
• Peter Benson (actor)
• Marc Bicking (actor)
• Casey Biggs (actor)
• JB Blanc (actor)
• Ken Bulcroft (actor)
• Josh Casaubon (actor)
• Derek Cecil (actor)
• Scott Churchson (actor)
• Bill Clinton (actor)
• Andrew J. Cornelius (actor)
• Ayad Akhtar (actor)

Genres

• Drama
• Drama

Quotes:

Henry Paulson: [TIREDLY] The Fed can lend to non banks under unusual and exigent circumstances, we're thinking of taking over 80% of the company.::Jim Wilkinson: [INSISTENTLY] Hank we can't! This morning we were lecturing the entire country on moral hazard.::Henry Paulson: [INCREASINGLY ANGRILY] AIG has collateral, they have assets, Lehman didn't, we couldn't lend into a hole, its not the same story!::Jim Wilkinson: [PLEADINGLY] Nobody is going to care, its another bailout, with no legislation, the Hill is gonna go crazy, the country is gonna go crazy.::Henry Paulson: [ANGRILY LECTURING] The plane we flew in on this morning leased from AIG, construction downtown AIG, life insurance 81 million policies with a face value of $1.9 trillion. Billions of dollars in teachers' pensions. You want "too big to fail" here it is! You got a better idea -the suggestion box is wide open!

Mack's Assistant: Tim Geithner's calling again.::John Mack: Cover your ears. You tell Tim Geithner to fucking blow me. I'm trying to save my company.

Michele Davis: They almost bring down the US economy as we know but we can't put restrictions on how they spend the $125 billion we're giving them because... they might not take it! [the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs upon hearing that the 9 bank CEOs may refuse to take free money from the federal government if they had to be held accountable for how they spent it]

Richard Fuld: [on the phone with Neel Kashkari] Last February, we were at 66 a share. Lehman Brothers is *not* Bear Stearns. We have a great business. Real estate will come back. I am not *fucking* giving this company away!

Ben Bernanke: I spent my entire academic career studying the Great Depression. The depression may have started because of a stock market crash, but what hit the general economy was a disruption of credit. Average citizens unable to borrow money, to do anything. To buy a home, start a business, stock their shelves. Credit has the ability to build a modern economy, but lack of credit has the ability to destroy it, swiftly and absolutely. If we do not act, boldly and immediately, we will replay the depression of the 1930s, only this time it will be far, far worse. We don't do this now, we won't have an economy on Monday.

Ben Bernanke: I don't really understand why there needs to be so much tension about this. The country is facing the worst economy since the Great Depression. If the financial system collapses, it will take every one of you down.

Michele Davis: I hate to do this right now, but I'm going to have to have a press call first thing, and I don't know what I'm going to tell them.::Jim Wilkinson: Okay, here's how you explain it. Wall Street started bundling home loans together - mortgage-backed securities - and selling slices of those bundles to investors, and they were making big money. So they started pushing the lenders saying, come on, we need more loans.::Henry Paulson: The lenders had already given loans to borrowers with good credit, so they go bottom feeding, they lower their criteria.::Neel Kashkari: Before, you needed a credit score of 620 and a down payment of 20%; now they'll settle for 500, no money down.::Jim Wilkinson: And the buyer, the regular guy on the street assumes that the experts know what they're doing. He's saying to himself, if the bank's willing to loan me money, I must be able to afford it. So he reaches for the American Dream, he buys that house.::Neel Kashkari: The banks knew securities based on shitbag mortgages were risky...::Henry Paulson: - you'll work on 'shitbag'...::Neel Kashkari: - so to control their downside, the banks started buying a kind of insurance. If mortgages default, insurance company pays. Default swap. The banks insure their potential losses to move the risk off their books, so they can invest more, make more money.::Henry Paulson: And while a lot of companies insured their stuff, one was dumb enough to take on an almost unbelievable amount of risk.::Michele Davis: AIG.::Jim Wilkinson: And you'll work on 'dumb.'::Michele Davis: And when they ask me why they did that?::Jim Wilkinson: Fees!::Neel Kashkari: Hundreds of millions in fees.::Henry Paulson: AIG figures the housing market would just keep going up. But then the unexpected happens.::Jim Wilkinson: Housing prices go down.::Neel Kashkari: Poor bastard who bought his dream house? The teaser rate on his mortgage runs out, his payments go up, he defaults.::Henry Paulson: Mortgage-backed securities tank. AIG has to pay off the swaps. All of them. All over the world. At the same time.::Neel Kashkari: AIG can't pay. AIG goes under. Every bank they insure books massive losses on the same day. And then they all go under. It all comes down.::Michele Davis: [horrified] The *whole* financial system? And what do I say when they ask me why it wasn't regulated?::Henry Paulson: No one wanted to. We were making too much money.

Richard Fuld: [on the housing crisis] You know, people act like we're crack dealers. Nobody put a gun to anybody's head and said, "Hey, nimrod, buy a house you can't afford, and you know what? While you're at it, put a line of credit on that baby and buy yourself a boat."::Joe Gregory: [chuckles] You heard anything from Buffett?::Erin Callan: He's asking for preferred shares at 40, with a dividend of nine percent.::Richard Fuld: [annoyed] We were just at 66. What the fuck?::Joe Gregory: Maybe it's just an opening gambit, Dick.::Richard Fuld: Sounds more like a goddamn insult!::Erin Callan: Dick, we're at 36 right now. We haven't been anywhere near 66 in months. The markets like Buffett. His name will push the price up overnight.::Richard Fuld: You know, I don't care who he is. I am not spending $360 million a year for the pleasure of doing business with him. Real estate will come back.::Joe Gregory: Koreans have been sniffing around.::Richard Fuld: There you go. And they won't steal us blind. I've seen this before: CEOs panic and they sell out cheap. Right now, the Street's running around with its hair on fire, but the storm always passes. We stand strong, and on the other side, we'll eat Goldman's lunch.::Erin Callan: So what do we do about Buffett?::Richard Fuld: Screw Warren Buffett.

Ben Bernanke: [Having breakfast with Henry Paulson] Lehman's down another 10%.::Henry Paulson: You are not gonna let me get down a single bite, are you?::Ben Bernanke: This is why I have oatmeal.

Chris Flowers: Make sure Fuld's not keeping any bad news out of the mix.::Rodgin Cohen: It's "open kimono", to quote Dick.::Chris Flowers: There's a revolting image.

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• The Best Government Money Can Buy?
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Famous quotes by Harry Reid:

"People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone."

"I think it would take a real stretch to think that I caused the problems with the economy."

"My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history."

"We can move America forward with a strong middle class. We can move America forward with a strong Democratic majority in the Senate. And together we can move America forward with Barack Obama in the White House."

"This nation has been through hard times. But those hard times have hardened our resolve. I'm ready to do the difficult work ahead. But I want to do that work with Barack Obama, and not a Tea Party ideologue. We can move America forward, but we can only do it together."

"It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage and character to the presidency. President Obama's strength of character leads him to do the right thing, even when it isn't the easy thing."

"So people have been hurting and I understand that. And it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me, we would be in a worldwide depression."

"The American people do not like privatization. They are afraid of the debt the president's willing to do. And they don't like benefit cuts. And everyone here should understand all 45 Senate Democrats are united. We are not going to let this happen."

"So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules."

"It's time that America's government lived by the same values as America's families. It's time we invested in America's future and made sure our people have the skills to compete and thrive in a 21st century economy. That's what Democrats believe."

"I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama. And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them."

"There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of forty percent or more."

"I can't stand John McCain."

"I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them."

"Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible."

"This 21st century economy holds great promise for our people. But unless we give all Americans the skills they need to succeed, countries like India and China will take good-paying jobs that should be ours."

"We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it."

"Some said he couldn't take on the insurance companies that were ripping us off. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save lives, save Medicare and ensure no one goes broke just because they get sick."

"Some said he shouldn't save Detroit. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save more than a million American jobs in an important, iconic industry."

"We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole."

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Hear It - Bad Religion
• Hear It - Jon Anderson
• Herr Gott - Züriwest
• Harrow Road - Big Audio Dynamite
• Hora Ruid - Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult

Like a morning crow and his unwelcome song
Or a worn-out broken record that keeps skipping along
Mountains of instructions you keep piling on me
Resound like a cacophonous symphony
But I don't wanna hear it anymore
Priests and politicians pretend they're your friend
And police speak to you like you're a child again
Blanket statements cover you like a rug
And thet tell me maybe I'm acting a little too smug
But I don't wanna hear it anymore
Every day we hear the secrets of life
Reduced to cheap jokes, poetry, and friendly advice
They'd rather see us all pusillanimous
Absorbent in their chorus of correctness

Hear it in the mystic voice
Of forces long forgotten of
Lions of thunder renting forth
The power of the given Lor
Hear it in the joyful tales
Of princes and their battle quest
Their armour being truth and goodness
To crush all life's evilness
hear it from the mountain side
Where nature spills its silent eyes
The days of paradise are there
The quietness of the dawning skies
Hear it for the love we share
This firmament of song and verse
For just one second share with me
The feelings of the universe
Dance of heaven, feel the feeling of delight
Dance of heaven, feel the feeling of delight
Feel the feeling of delight

he hör doch uf mit dere gschicht
vergiss es doch
es bringt doch nüt
mir chöi doch süsch chli zäme brichte
mir chöi doch no chli under d lüt
du machs di doch säuber fertig
du trääisch di doch scho lang im kreis
un i chas jitz de glii nümm ghöre
herrgott hör doch uf
i weiss du hättsch es villech mit de viicher
eifach söue la bewände
chum jitz trink doch nid so viu
was hesch de jitz scho wieder chummer
jitz gits ja würklech nümm viu z rette
u när gits ändlech rueh da unge
mach dr doch nid geng die vorwürf
du trääisch di doch scho lang im kreis
un i chas jitz de glii nümm ghöre
herrgott hör doch uf
i weiss du hättsch es villech mit de viicher
eifach söue la bewände
hör doch jitz uf mit dere gschicht
dadrann gits nümm umezschtudiere
du chöntsch doch öppis anders mache
du chasch ja öppis nöis probiere
mach dr doch nid geng die vorwürf
du trääisch di doch scho lang im kreis
un i chas jitz de glii nümm ghöre
herrgott hör doch uf
i weiss du hättsch es villech mit de viicher
eifach söue la bewände

I saw Elvis washing clothes in the launderette by the grove
Washing powder on his nose, down the Harrow Road
He was talkin' bout a song
Had it all but got it wrong
Now he wants to join the band and play along
There's so many stories being told, down Harrow Road
Since you were young until your old, down Harrow Road
Down the Harrow Road
There's this bloke who thinks he's handy
Selling globes and home made brandy
He comes all the way from Bendy down to Harrow Road
You see over the cemetery wall from the bridge, about to fall
Don't let them work in over night
Their men will finish it off
There's so many stories being told, down Harrow Road
Since you were young until your old, down Harrow Road
Down the Harrow Road
Now here comes your brand new sensation
So all you DUBBLE U's get to your battle stations
So nobody try to put I on probation
'Cause this one is coming to all the nation. Do it
So many stories being told, down Harrow Road
Since you were young until your old, down Harrow Road
(Run a combi with a heavy, heavy load)
So many stories being told, down Harrow Road
Since you were young until your old, down Harrow Road
(Come down to Harrow Road, come with me to back in time)
So many stories being told, down Harrow Road
Since you were young until your old, down Harrow Road

Imagine...
Underneath Bethlehem's star,
plagues of depravitz are unleashed -
on the path of obliteration the seed to destroy.
Hatched from the womb of a maggot mouldering hag!
AD PORTAS IBI TEMPUS FUGIT
A fire the birthplace of christian belief,
flames licking up to every source.
Almighty he is called,
He who now receives the crusader's bolt
Right through his pearly gates!
The bolt of destruction impales,
during the brazing downfall's hour,
Their pathetic hope.
In the core suffocates the belief,
In the carrion of his now never forming!