Fired ( by Dickdarth Cheney) former Secretary of the Treasury, Paul O’Neill, in Sunday’s NY Times Magazine when asked:
It’s so hard to understand how the subprime mortgage crisis has triggered a financial crisis of global proportions.
O’Neill’s answer: If you have 10 bottles of water, and one bottle had poison in it, and you didn’t know which one, you probably wouldn’t drink out of any of the 10 bottles; that’s basically what we’ve got there.