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" Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities. "

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" There's trade, there's sensible trade, and there's dumb trade. "

" The rules of origin in NAFTA need some tightening. Rules of origin are what let material outside of NAFTA to come in and benefit from all the taxes and tariff reductions within NAFTA. "

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

" NAFTA is an ancient treaty. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The way we'll get more jobs is by creating new industries, new companies, businesses that are higher tech and therefore can compete. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The problem with regional trade agreements is you get picked apart by the first country. Then you negotiate with the second country. You get picked apart. And you go with the third one. You get picked apart again. "

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

" 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 want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If trade deficits are good, why is China so pleased that they run a huge trade surplus? It's perfectly obvious that if China hadn't been such a huge net-exporter, it never would have grown at the rate that it did. "

" 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. "

" One of the problems with industries that have been in relatively long-term declines is that, very often, the managements in those industries develop a kind of loser mentality. And when you ask them what's wrong with the business, they'll point to extraneous forces. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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