Bond Ratings Quotes

Gentlemen prefer bonds.

I'm the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in American history, and 14 government funds around the country were downgraded, we earned the highest rating we could earn on our $4 billion investment fund.

The rating agencies historically actually did a pretty good job rating regular bonds.

Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.

Today, credit rating agencies rate companies, countries and bonds.

People looked to rating agencies to do the work for them.

The credit quality of junk bonds varies widely.

Junk bonds prove there's nothing magical in a Aaa bond rating.

I think, as time passes, people will come to see that the United States' credit standing is really not quite the same level as the ones that we rate AAA.