&gt; If you could point me to a single bank president who says<p>Why do you think they would say what their true goals are to you?  People in positions of power are extremely judicious and strategic about what they say and to whom.  They get daily exercise in this and only the best survive.  The most effective are excellent at pursuing their goals while maintaining a socially credible exterior.  The less effective use coded language (corpspeak or political rhetoric) to try to hedge through via indirection.