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" I was secretary of the Treasury in 2008. In that role, I had the privilege to work with many talented men and women in government and the private sector who labored to pull our nation back from the brink of disaster. "

Henry Paulson

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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. "

" 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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" I do not believe the United States and the Americans are going to let Donald Trump become president... I think the challenge is Donald Trump, with his anti-China rhetoric and with his anti-trade rhetoric, is going to make the job for all of us more difficult going forward. "

" If a financial institution has business operations in the United States, hires people in the United States, if they are clogged with illiquid assets, they have the same impact on the American people as any other institution. "

" I'd have liked to have been another Faulkner, of course. "

" Until we stem the housing correction, until the biggest part of that is behind us and we have more stability in housing prices, we're going to continue to have turmoil in the financial markets. "

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" Let's not forget, what TARP did allowed us to move overnight and put capital into hundreds of banks, and that money came back plus $32 billion. "

" 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. "

" Anticompetitive practices hurt Chinese private firms nearly as much as foreign ones. "

" In all my life, I've been trained that when there's a big problem, you run toward it. "

" I'll be voting for Hillary Clinton, with the hope that she can bring Americans together to do the things necessary to strengthen our economy, our environment, and our place in the world. "

" 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. "

" Foreclosures are a significant problem; they're an economic problem. "

" Prime Minister Singh is to be commended for beginning the process of transforming India into a global economic power by initiating economic liberalization in the early 1990s. "

" Regulation needs to catch up with innovation. "

" As long as I can remember, I had a strong interest in fishing, and my parents, even though they had never fished or camped, took us on canoe camping trips in the wilderness of Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada, where I could fish to my heart's content. "

" China saves too much, produces too much, sells too much to Americans and consumes too little. "

" I look forward to the day when China has a truly market-determined solution... To get there, you need to have a currency that is market-determined, an open capital market, and you are going to need a competitive, open financial system. "

" There is big resistance from vested interests in China that don't want to open up to competition. "

" I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers. "

" 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. "

" I prefer to work at the policy level, on trying to fix flawed government policies. "

" The country is polarized. And I think part of it - it is not just social media. We get our facts from different places. People self-select with so many different cable channels and so many sources. I think that is a huge problem. "

" Too often, we restrict trade that would create U.S. jobs and is in our national interest. "

" 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. "

" I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies. "

" Xi Jinping is a very strong and ambitious leader who is looking to make a lot of changes in China. He is not looking to follow a Western model based on universal suffrage. That is for sure. "

" Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution. "