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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 fact that you're successful doesn't mean that you can't relate to working people. "

" 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. "

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

" I believe in the two-party system. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Shale gas, if left to flourish, could create several hundred thousand more jobs. "

" Hillary Clinton can't tell a good trade deal from bad one. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" NAFTA is an ancient treaty. "

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