French President Nicolas Sarkozy slams Wall Street

19 05 2010

[March 31]

…The French leader began his keynote address stressing the important role of the US in the global financial crisis: “A few hundred irresponsible hotheads did mad things on the stock market, with derivatives, with other people’s money. Do you think we can defend capitalism … when there is so much injustice? I don’t think so because it is impossible to defend.”….

 from:  http://english.pravda.ru/world/europe/31-03-2010/112793-sarkozy-0

and here’s the whole speech – http://www.worldleaders.columbia.edu/events/president-nicolas-sarkozy-france