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" Believe it or not, Mexico has better treaties with the rest of the world than the Unites States does. "

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" To me, the most terrifying form of warfare would be if there was some simultaneous cyber attack on our grid, on the banking system, and on our transportation system. That would be quite a devastating thing, and yet in theory, absent some real protective measures, that could happen. "

" If you add up all the promises any politicians makes, the math doesn't work. "

" Many of the smaller banks have had to get to the point where they now have more compliance people than they have lending offices. That's crazy. "

" We think, over the long term, the real key to value of a bank is does it have true deposits from true long-term customers? People who actually know the bank, live in the neighborhood, work there, maybe have a mortgage there, credit card... That, to us, is the key to a bank. "

" We are the world's biggest importer. We need to treat the other countries as good suppliers. "

" I think at the end of the day, the real sick man of Europe is liable to turn out to be France, not Greece, not Portugal, not Spain, not Italy. The reason is France is very uncompetitive to begin with on a global scale, and the measures that Hollande has been putting in have been very, very negative from the point of view of economic growth. "

" The reality is if something were to happen that cost China jobs - like, if they upwardly revalued the currency a lot - those jobs aren't going to come back to the U.S. They would go to Vietnam; they would go to Thailand. They would go to whatever country was the lowest cost. "

" My wife Hillary sometimes accuses me of trying to reinvent the 19th century. In some ways she's right because I like things that I can understand and that aren't too complicated. "

" I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with a bank being big. In fact, there are some good arguments about universality of geography that in theory, if you have all your eggs in one little community, and some big employer goes out, that could be your downfall. "

" I think partly the decline in the peso was due to worry about renegotiation of NAFTA, but I think we also need to think about some other mechanisms for making the peso/dollar exchange rate a bit more stable. "

" The E.U. is one of our largest trading partners, and any negotiations legally must be conducted at the E.U. level and not with individual nations. "

" NAFTA is an ancient treaty. "

" There are deep value opportunities in insurance stocks, which were beaten down because of their exposure to the subprime crisis, annuities, and commercial real estate. "

" Confrontational things, admission of error, admission of defeat, restructuring, laying people off - those are not American ideals. "

" The typical big Japanese company has somewhere between a third and 40 percent of its revenues coming from developing countries, and about a third of Japan's exports are also to the emerging countries, so in a strange way, Japan, which has very little internal growth, its big companies are a good way to play the emerging markets. "

" I am not anti-trade. I am pro-trade. But I am pro-sensible trade. "

" Part of the reason why I'm supporting Trump is that I think we need a more radical, new approach to government - at least in the U.S. - from what we've had before. "

" The United States is the least protectionist country in the world but has the largest trade deficit, while other countries are highly protectionist and have huge trade surpluses. This cannot continue. "

" Barring some national security concern, I see no valid reason to keep peer-reviewed research from the public. To be clear, by 'peer review,' I mean scientific review and not a political filter. "

" The one term I don't like to be called is a 'vulture.' Because to me, a vulture is a kind of asset-stripper that eats dead flesh off the bones of a dead creature. Our bird should be the phoenix, the bird that reinvents itself, recreates itself from its ashes. And that's much closer to what it is that we really do. "

" My obligation is to disclose companies in which I'm an officer, a director, or an investor. "

" Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things. "

" There isn't a bank in the world that could withstand a run. They all borrow short and lend long, regardless of what they say. "

" I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners. "

" Everybody talks about tariffs as the first thing. Tariffs are the last thing. Tariffs are part of the negotiation. The real trick is going to be increase American exports. Get rid of some of the tariff and non-tariff barriers to American exports. "

" The fact that you're successful doesn't mean that you can't relate to working people. "

" I believe if we and the Mexicans make a very sensible trade agreement, the Mexican peso will recover quite a lot. "

" If people know you have the big bazooka, you probably don't have to use it. "

" Each weekend I play at least one and maybe two sets of tennis a day. My doubles team was in the finals recently at my tennis club in Palm Beach and lost a tiebreaker after a three-hour match. I must confess, by the end of the three hours, I was relieved it was over. "