"Think of it this way: through the new FCL, we are creating contingent liabilities - our insurance policies - and against that, we need contingent assets, and that is what the $500 billion is going to be.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

"So,we think this is going to create a very dire situation where some of us might think of it as genocide by other means rather than by bullets - killing these people slowly through starvation, disease and lack of sanitation,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.28