The Last Days of Lehman Brothers (2009 TV Movie)

Richard Durden: Harvey Miller

Quotes 

• Harvey Miller : [having been ordered by Dick Fuld to prepare a billion dollar bankruptcy petition over the weekend]  First of all, we don't have a team. Second, YOU don't have a team. Everyone's working on due diligence for the mergers. Third, nobody can put together a bankruptcy of this size in two days. And fourth, the government's not going to let you go down.

  Richard 'Dick' Fuld : Paulson's opening position is that we sink or swim.

  Harvey Miller : Are you kidding?

  [realizing that Fuld is serious] 

  Harvey Miller : It would be a financial disaster the likes of which the world has never seen before. It'd be like the American government itself going bankrupt. It would be like the US dollar being rendered worthless and everyone being told to start over with goats and pebbles. It would be like Rome selling the Vatican to the Japanese to make it a hotel, and hiring the Pope as a bellboy. It's just a fantasy. It's a through the looking glass world. It's something from the book of Revelations.

  Richard 'Dick' Fuld : And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and a hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.