What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives.

  • -- Bernie Sanders 桑德斯

华尔街和信用卡公司所做的,实际上与黑帮和高利贷者所做的并无太大不同,后者发放掠夺性贷款。虽然银行家们穿着三件套西装,不会把那些无力还款的人的膝盖骨弄断,但他们仍在破坏人们的生活。

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I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesn't make any difference what the interest rate is. They're not - they're not going to loan the money because they can't make any money for one thing plus the cost of compliance.

我的意思是,多德-弗兰克法案正在扼杀小型社区银行。利率是多少无所谓。他们不会贷款因为他们不能为一件事赚到钱再加上合规成本。

The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.

你所说的掠夺成性和令人厌恶的角色是有用的。他们把小说拍成惊悚片。他们是积极的,而大多数共同的美德,一个好人的标志,却不是。

Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.

我们在这个世界上的住所是短暂的,我们在其中的生命只是一笔贷款,我们的呼吸是有限的,我们的懒惰是明显的。