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

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" When the economy is growing, there's a lot that can be done to deal with the deficit. "

" I grew up on a farm - I know the smell of horse manure. It does smell better than pig manure. "

" In pursuing economic growth, India and the United States share similar values and similar challenges. We understand that the global economy is here to stay. To keep growing and leading the world in innovation and opportunity, the United States and India must trade freely, openly, and according to the principles of the global marketplace. "

" 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's a great lack of financial literacy and understanding in this nation, even among college-educated people. "

" The cheapest and cleanest energy is the energy you don't use. "

" Sovereign wealth fund money should be welcomed. The only way not to welcome that money is when it's politically driven. "

" 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. "

" China needs a currency that reflects underlying economic fundamentals. "

" After I left Treasury, I think in some ways it was harder to sit there and be writing my book... listening to all the criticism. "

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

" 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. "

" In my experience, the most effective professionals in business and government have the ability to get things done. They're trained to work with multiple stakeholders, to understand how to identify a problem, devise solutions, to compromise and work well with others. "

" My dad was somewhat of a naturalist and used to teach us about different birds and trees. So did a fifth grade teacher who made a lasting impact on me; to this day, I remember his lessons about counting the needles on pine trees, seeing if they are twisted or straight, and about checking the tips of oak leaves to see if they are pointed or lobed. "

" I see nothing easy in Washington. I see either analytically simple things that are politically complex or those that are politically complex and analytically complex. I mean, look at immigration reform, you know? It is, I think, analytically easy, but politically very, very complex and very difficult. "

" I have always tried to live by the philosophy that when there is a big problem that needs fixing, you should run towards it, rather than away from it. "

" Every good businessman or woman carefully analyzes all the available facts before making a decision. "

" I have relied on prayer for health care all of my life. "

" It is important that China stop its over-reliance on municipal debt to finance infrastructure. I take comfort in the fact that China's leaders understand this. "

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

" I've long believed the environmental issue is an economic issue and a political issue. The three are entwined. You can't build prosperity on any basis other than a long-term basis, and you can't do that if you don't have a healthy environment. "

" I am suspicious of career engineers, people that plan it out every step of the way. "

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

" I don't take lightly ever putting the taxpayer on the line to support an institution. "

" No bank should be too big or too complex to fail, but almost any bank is too big to liquidate quickly, particularly in the midst of a crisis. "

" I've been through periods of stress, turbulence in the market for over the course of my career, various times, and never in any of those other periods have we had the advantage of a strong economy underpinning the markets. "

" 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 the Indian government has embraced greater economic openness, the creativity and expertise of the Indian workforce has been unleashed onto the world economic stage. "

" A Fed loan to Lehman Brothers would not have prevented a bankruptcy. "