Henry Paulson Quotes
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Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, U.S. payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over $13 trillion.
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The Chinese have done some extraordinary things in terms of the investments they've made in alternative sources of energy.
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We've all got to work to restore business confidence...but I believe that longer term we may look at Enron as being a positive as opposed to a negative, ... It may lead to greater transparency.
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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.
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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 is the policy of the federal government to use all resources at its disposal to make our financial system stronger.
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Illiquid asset purchases are all about capital and encouraging private capital to come in.
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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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Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligation for due diligence.
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I didn't get the charm gene.
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The most pressing and significant problems in the global economy are unsustainable structural issues with regard to the E.U. - fiscal deficits and the structure of the E.U. itself.
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I see the underlying economy as being very healthy.
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We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.
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As I talk with the Chinese on currency, I encourage them to move much more quickly with opening up their capital markets to competition, because I don't believe the world is going to give them as much time as they would like.
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Too often, we restrict trade that would create U.S. jobs and is in our national interest.
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The U.S. and China need to take steps - mostly individually, sometimes together - that will have the mutually beneficial effect of supporting and sustaining economic growth.
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In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.
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When our markets work, people throughout our economy benefit - Americans seeking to buy a car or buy a home, families borrowing to pay for college, innovators borrowing on the strength of a good idea for a new product or technology, and businesses financing investments that create new jobs.
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When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.
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This action also will meet a fundamental objective of the partners -- to share ownership benefits and responsibilities more broadly among all of the firm's employees.
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As a child, I could beat most kids in sprints, but overall, wrestling was the most natural sport for me. In fact, I was a pretty good high school wrestler. I was unusually quick and strong.
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Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.
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I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers.