Henry Paulson Quotes
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A Fed loan to Lehman Brothers would not have prevented a bankruptcy.
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For decades, Indians have immigrated to the United States, joined our communities, and raised their families while maintaining their cultural heritage.
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This acquisition highlights Goldman Sachs' strategy of expanding our electronic market-making capabilities.
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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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We are very confident about the long-term outlook for our business, but believe that the immediate impact will be a further weakening in the operating environment and a delay in the economic recovery, ... However, given increased fiscal and monetary stimulus, we anticipate that long-term economic recovery should be more certain and vigorous than previously expected.
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Many of the Western democracies - including the U.S. - have a problem that voters want benefits they don't want to pay for.
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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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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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I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.
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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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Non-bank financial institutions provide credit that is essential to U.S. businesses and consumers.
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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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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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I've always said, 'I don't want to be irrelevant.'
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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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What I've said repeatedly is, 'I think the auto industry is a very important industry.'
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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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As the Indian government has embraced greater economic openness, the creativity and expertise of the Indian workforce has been unleashed onto the world economic stage.
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When the economy is growing, there's a lot that can be done to deal with the deficit.
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If the financial system collapses, it's really, really hard to put it back together again.
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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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Illiquid asset purchases are all about capital and encouraging private capital to come in.
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The Chinese have done some extraordinary things in terms of the investments they've made in alternative sources of energy.