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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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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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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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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China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon.
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This acquisition highlights Goldman Sachs' strategy of expanding our electronic market-making capabilities.
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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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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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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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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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I have relied on prayer for health care all of my life.
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I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.
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A Fed loan to Lehman Brothers would not have prevented a bankruptcy.
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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've always said, 'I don't want to be irrelevant.'
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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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If the financial system collapses, it's really, really hard to put it back together again.
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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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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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During the third quarter, we saw increasing activity levels across all of our major businesses and believe overall market conditions support a generally optimistic outlook.
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I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people.
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I didn't get the charm gene.
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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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In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.