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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" China is the most protectionist country of the very large countries. They talk more about free trade than they actually practice. "

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

" China is the world's biggest exporter, but they're also the people with one of the highest tariffs on imports in the whole world. That seems a little bit oxymoronic. "

" We think, over the long term, the real key to value of a bank is does it have true deposits from true long-term customers? People who actually know the bank, live in the neighborhood, work there, maybe have a mortgage there, credit card... That, to us, is the key to a bank. "

" I still like TIPS (Treasury inflation-protected securities), and I think a big opportunity is coming in the municipal bond market. "

" There is no evidence that more regulation makes things better. The most highly regulated industry in America is commercial banking, and that didn't save those institutions from making terrible decisions. "

" 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. "

" I think what we have to do is figure out how to make sure we get the benefits of improved technology and yet cope with the dislocation that it will inevitably produce in certain industries. "

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

" If people know you have the big bazooka, you probably don't have to use it. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Generally speaking, companies get into bankruptcy as a kind of meritocracy. Somebody made some sort of big mistake, to get into bankruptcy, and very often, a part of the mistake is too much leverage. "

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

" 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. "

" The reality is if something were to happen that cost China jobs - like, if they upwardly revalued the currency a lot - those jobs aren't going to come back to the U.S. They would go to Vietnam; they would go to Thailand. They would go to whatever country was the lowest cost. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I think there's a big difference between the impact of trade agreements on corporate America and the impact on Mr. and Mrs. America. Corporate America has adjusted to them by investing lots of capital offshore... What we're doing is we're exporting jobs and importing products instead of exporting products and keeping jobs. "

" 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. "