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Bailing Quotes

From baseball to bank bailouts.

One quote traces its roots to a father coaching baseball; others go straight to the 2008 bank bailout, the debate it kicked off, and the businesses it did and didn't cover. Together they use 'bailing' in both its everyday and economic sense.

I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunities that I never really pursued - with some Miami teams and a few larger colleges, and then I ended up...

Quotes by Todd English

When you're writing for the Internet, you have the analytics, and you know that people are bailing every second. But various people kept reminding me that once people have bought a book, they're in. You don't have to be selling...

Quotes by Robin Sloan

It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.

Quotes by Robbie Fowler

You know, Hoosiers recognize pork when we see it. And they recognize what bailing out every failing business in America means - We're burying generations under a mountain range of debt.

Quotes by Mike Pence

Ale Quotes

While headlines are being generated about the Democrat mindset of nationalizing private businesses and bailing out failed ventures, we seem to be ignoring one of the most massive bail-outs ever: the taxpayer-funded process of transitioning people from analog to digital...

Quotes by Mike Gallagher

I'm a conservative. I believe in the idea of freedom and liberty, but more importantly, look at my voting background. I voted against bailing out Wall Street. I voted against, never voted for, a tax increase.

Quotes by Kevin McCarthy

Remember the Tea Party movement didn't get started in September of 2008 when the bank bailout was passed. It really began on Feb. 19th, 2009 when a television commentator named Rick Santelli stood up and said what the hell are...

Quotes by Karl Rove

In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to talk about 'free markets.' It's totally outdated; they don't have arguments; they don't have any sense.

Quotes by Hugo Chavez

I have no interest in bailing out anybody, quite frankly, and I think banks have to suffer every dollar of loss if they make a bad loan.

Quotes by Edward Conard

America Quotes

When I first came into parliament, there was, on average, a by-election every three months - due not to MPs bailing out, but because of the death rate.

Quotes by David Blunkett

Washington is broken. Bailing out Wall Street with no strings attached while leaving middle class Arkansas taxpayers with the bill. Protecting insurance company profits instead of patients and lowering health costs.

Quotes by Bill Halter

In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the...

Quotes by Andrew Ross Sorkin

I think, with Hank Paulson, the concept of a bailout was anathema to him from day one. He was a Republican; he's a free marketeer. He believes in capitalism, and part of capitalism is believing in failure. And so the...

Quotes by Andrew Ross Sorkin

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the 'Bailing' quotes page cover?
Most of these quotes use 'bailing' in the financial sense - government or institutional bailouts during economic downturns - reflecting debate over who gets rescued and who ends up carrying the cost.
Do these quotes reflect a single point of view on bailouts?
No - the quotes represent different speakers' individual opinions on bailout policy, ranging from concern about long-term debt to broader criticism of rescuing failing businesses. They're presented as historical statements, not the site's own position.
Is there a quote connecting bailouts to a specific political movement?
Yes - one line traces a grassroots protest movement's origins to reaction against a proposed bank bailout, describing a specific televised moment often cited as its starting point.
Does the collection mention debt as a consequence of bailouts?
Yes - one quote warns that rescuing failing businesses risks burying future generations under a heavy load of national debt, a common argument raised in bailout debates.
Is there a lighter or unrelated use of 'bailing' in this list?
One entry is actually about baseball, recalling a childhood spent playing the sport with a father who coached first base - a reminder that not every quote here is about economics. Readers who enjoy personal-history quotes may also like Bad quotes.

For more on resilience under financial pressure, see our America quotes and bad quotes collections.