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" If you think about it: a big bank in any country, what is it? Really, as an investment, it's a warrant on economy. "

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" Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things. If we could figure out that the subprime thing was a train wreck that was coming, where were the regulators? "

" 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. "

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

" The whole idea of a trade deal is to build a fence around participants inside and give them an advantage over the outside. So there's a conceptual flaw in that, one of many conceptual flaws in NAFTA. "

" Enforcement is a very important part of the administration strategy. We think that even our friendly nations should live by the rules, and if they don't, we will intend to enforce things against them. "

" Shipping has a great oversupply of vessels that came from over-ordering a few years back. We think 2014 may be when it turns around. "

" We'll be aggressive on trade because we know that deals that have been made historically have resulted in the great loss of manufacturing jobs, a great amount of closed manufacturing businesses. We don't want that to 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. "

" If you add up all the promises any politician makes, the math doesn't work. Hillary Clinton's math doesn't work; Donald's math probably doesn't work. I think you have to listen to their campaign pitches more as symbolic, more as metaphors. "

" We're in a trade war. We've been in a trade war for decades. That's why we have the deficit. "

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

" Washington, D.C., is the new Wall Street. No significant financial transaction of any consequence occurs without it. "

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

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

" 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. "

" You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning. "

" Between the Community Redevelopment Act, requiring banks to make what I would call very weak loans, and specific quotas that the Congress imposed on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, that created the market demand that really led to the subprime phenomenon. "

" Mexico has 44 treaties with other countries that make it very advantageous to do international shipping from Mexico rather than from the United States. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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., China, and Japan all talk free trade, and they all practice protectionism. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Absent some international interruption, there's no real justification for oil being more than $90 or $100 a barrel. "

" It's important to have a sound idea, but the really important thing is the implementation. "