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

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" 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. "

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" Size is the enemy of excellence in investment banking, particularly when you are trying to put together two different cultures. "

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" For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system. "

" An AIG failure would have been devastating to the financial system and to the economy. "

" The idea of being Treasury secretary in the abstract appealed to me, but my initial inclination was that it wasn't right for me to take that step. "

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" We have institutions that have been allowed to become too big to fail because we had all kinds of flaws in our financial infrastructure, in the whole way over-the-counter derivatives work. "

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