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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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" We need a new tax system. We need entitlement reform. We need immigration reform. These are not easy things. But it is going to take our political system working better. "

" We must limit the perception that some institutions are either too big or too interconnected to fail. "

" I grew up on a working farm. It was small, a hundred acres, but we had cows and pigs and chickens and sheep and a vegetable garden. I spent hours pulling weeds, hoeing, feeding the horses, cleaning out the stalls. My dad was a tough taskmaster. I always worked, but we also had fun. "

" The Treasury Department has a critical role to play in helping to set the direction of a U.S. and global economy, a role that reaches back to America's founding. "

" I think history shows that countries have to have some kind of a threshold level of economic success before they begin to have the means and the will to focus on the environment. "

" 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. "

" I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people. "

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" I've always said, 'I don't want to be irrelevant.' "

" Frankly I'm a bit concerned when it comes to U.S.-China relations. "

" I didn't get the charm gene. "

" Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity. "

" I want to remind you of one thing, which is, when I look around the world and look at the long-term economic fundamentals we have in this country, I think they compare favorably with what I see in any major developed country in the world. "

" Predators, they're the best coal miners' canary. When they're gone, you've got a sick ecosystem. "

" Indian-Americans are physicians, engineers, CEOs, professors, teachers, entrepreneurs. They are a vital part of the United States' economic and social fabric. Because of this long history, the bonds among our people and our cultures will remain strong. "

" An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than governmental intervention. "

" Large financial institutions in this country will always play a role that is essential to our economic growth. But they must only be permitted to grow and interconnect, throughout our economy, under careful oversight and with a mechanism for allowing those connections to be broken safely. "

" As a steward of the U.S.economy and financial systems, the Treasury has helped lay the groundwork for the American economy to become a model of strength, flexibility, dynamism, resiliency. This is a system that generates growth, creates jobs and wealth, rewards initiative, and fosters innovation. "

" I happen to think that global slowdown, the slowdown in investment, strengthening dollar probably provide more of a headwind than we get from the decline in oil prices. "

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" Regulation needs to catch up with innovation. "

" 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. "

" What began as a subprime lending problem has spread to other, less risky mortgages and contributed to excess home inventories that have pushed down home prices for responsible homeowners. "

" When you're boiling in oil, in the middle of a crisis, the challenges are so consuming there is no time for anything else. "

" When I left the Treasury, there was a poll that showed - and I don't remember the numbers exactly right - something like 90% of the people were against TARP. It prevented a disaster, but you don't get credit for a disaster that people don't see. "

" I've got to say our banking system is a safe and a sound one. And since the days when we've had federal deposit insurance in place, we haven't had a depositor who's got less than $100,000 in an account lose a penny. So the American people can be very, very confident about their accounts in our banking system. "

" Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together. "

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" I can't help but think what would have happened if a divisive character such as Trump were president during the 2008 financial crisis, at a time when leadership, compromise, and careful analysis were critical. "

" I hate good press, and I abhor bad press. "

" If you've got a bazooka, and people know you've got it, you may not have to take it out. "

" I grew up with a strong set of values - and one was never judging someone by how much money they had. "