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I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis. -- Jeffrey Sachs
The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved. -- Mark Rutte
I have full confidence in the IMF. It is a very strong international institution. -- Jose Manuel Barroso
The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO. -- Jose Saramago
The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia. -- Jeffrey Sachs
By the way, the European Union Member States together - even the euro area Member States together - are by far the biggest contributors to the IMF. -- Jose Manuel Barroso
The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this. -- Abu Bakar Bashir
Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute. -- Yoshihiko Noda
Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources. -- Cynthia McKinney
There were times when there were riots in Africa, demonstrations against the IMF because of the policy advice they were giving, the conditionalities they were imposing, and the difficulties that arose out of the implementation of those conditionalities. -- Jakaya Kikwete
I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon. -- Hugo Chavez
The IMF is the International Mafia Federation. They're the loansharks of last resort. -- Gerald Celente
My congratulations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution. -- David Rockefeller
Korea's early repayment of the full amount of loans from the IMF is a major milestone. -- Horst Koehler
The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street. -- Che Guevara
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But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society. -- Kim Dae Jung
But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society. -- Kim Dae Jung
The IMF economists were doubtless shaken by the extreme failures of their prescriptions over many years, and by the collapse of the intellectual edifice of economic theory on which they were relying. -- Noam Chomsky
We do have some assistance from the World Bank but not from the IMF. We are not borrowing yet, but we are considering, in the future, borrowing from the Kuwait Fund to support our infrastructure development. -- Jose Ramos-Horta
Conservatives believe that international institutions such as the United Nations are anti-American and anti-Israeli cabals. Progressives do not like the economic medicine that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank force down the throats of developing countries. -- Michael Ignatieff
If the IMF is correct (a big if), China will be the planet's No.1 economy by 2016. That means whoever's elected in November next year will be the last president of the United States to preside over the world's dominant economic power. -- Mark Steyn
I found myself doing extraordinary things that arent in the textbooks. Then the IMF asked the U.S. to please print money. The whole world is now practicing what they have been saying I should not. I decided that God had been on my side and had come to vindicate me. -- Gideon Gono
If it is an element of liberation for Latin America, I believe that it should have demonstrated that. Until now, I have not been aware of any such demonstration. The IMF performs an entirely different function: precisely that of ensuring that capital based outside of Latin America controls all of Latin America. -- Che Guevara
With all that IMF money, the Thailand's and Mexico's are spared the consequences of their fiscal incompetence, and Wall Street's heavy hitters are spared the consequences of their stupid investments. The global economy is a rigged game, rigged so Third World politicians, rich investors and global corporations win - and U.S. taxpayers lose. -- Pat Buchanan
The dirty little secret is that both houses of Congress are irrelevant. ... America's domestic policy is now being run by Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve, and America's foreign policy is now being run by the International Monetary Fund [IMF]. ...when the president decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from Congress. -- Robert Reich
One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil prices, the debt imbroglio, and falling terms of trade. The last of these governments to fall were the Communist regimes of eastern Europe, which have now gone the way of other Third World countries. The second in the cascade of bifurcations is thus symbolized by 1989. -- Immanuel Wallerstein
The United States has given frequent and enthusiastic support to the overthrow of democracy in favor of "investor friendly" regimes. The World Bank, IMF, and private banks have consistently lavished huge sums on terror regimes, following their displacement of democratic governments, and a number of quantitative studies have shown a systematic positive relationship between U.S. and IMF / World Bank aid to countries and their violations of human rights. -- Edward S. Herman
What can Americans learn from the Olympics spectacle? According to the IMF, China will succeed America as the dominant economic power in the course of the next presidential term, so Howard Fineman, editorial director of the Huffington Post and MSNBC mainstay, was anxious to pick up tips. 'Brits long ago lost their empire,' he tweeted, 'but overall show us how to lose global power gracefully.' So there's that. -- Mark Steyn
Say goodbye to the IMF once and for all as the IMF's conditions enriches the rich and impoverishes the poor. -- Imran Khan
Every government, from the Obama administration right through to Angela Merkel, the Eurozone and the IMF, promise to save the banks, not the economy. -- Michael Hudson
I don't know how many resolutions from the IMF or G-20 we have already written saying that such [financial] reforms are necessary for new growth. -- Wolfgang Schauble
We simply cannot afford any further delay in providing the IMF with the resources it requires to help contain the threat of further financial and political instability around the world. -- Robert Rubin
International institutions like the Security Council, the General Assembly, the G20, the BRICs, the IMF, etc., continue to be little more than an extension of the (increasingly conflicting) values and interests of member states. -- Ian Bremmer

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