Henry Paulson Quotes
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I have great, great confidence in our capital markets and in our financial institutions. Our financial institutions, banks and investment banks, are strong. Our capital markets are resilient. They're efficient. They're flexible.
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China needs a currency that reflects underlying economic fundamentals.
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As a public company, Goldman Sachs will have the financial strength and strategic flexibility to continue to serve our clients effectively as well as to respond thoughtfully to the business and competitive environment over the long term.
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India is a vibrant nation whose strength lies in its commitment to equal rights and to speech, religious and economic freedoms that enrich the lives of all citizens. India is not only the world's largest democracy; it is also a secular, pluralistic society committed to inclusive growth.
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This acquisition highlights Goldman Sachs' strategy of expanding our electronic market-making capabilities.
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We don't have a lot more time to deal with climate change, ... We need the right balance between regulation and market-based approaches.
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From the beginning of time, we've had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for the root causes, they're almost always failed government policies.
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Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now as we work off some of the past excesses. But the American people can remain confident in the soundness and the resilience of our financial system.
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I didn't get the charm gene.
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In the past, if a homeowner with a mortgage had a problem making the payment, often he'd get together with a lender and strike a deal, because foreclosures are very expensive to the lender and obviously not good for the homeowner and the community.
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I've always said, 'I don't want to be irrelevant.'
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As Americans, we shouldn't like bailouts. Where I come from, if someone takes a risk and they're going to make the profit from that risk, they shouldn't have the taxpayer pay for the losses.
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A Fed loan to Lehman Brothers would not have prevented a bankruptcy.
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In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.
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China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon.
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A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better chance of identifying and limiting the impact of future speculative bubbles.
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I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.
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I have relied on prayer for health care all of my life.
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U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market.
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I'm telling you that there is no silver bullet to keep home prices from going down or to prevent all foreclosures.
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Anticompetitive practices hurt Chinese private firms nearly as much as foreign ones.
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Investment banks are increasingly using their own balance sheets to extend credit to clients, to assume market risk on their behalf and sometimes to co-invest alongside them. Investment banking serves as the main initial point of contact with all of Goldman Sachs for our clients.
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My preference is for the Federal Reserve to be the systemic risk regulator, because the responsibility for identifying and limiting potential problems is a natural complement to its role in monetary policy.
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It's a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation.