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" What I've said repeatedly is, 'I think the auto industry is a very important industry.' "
Henry Paulson
Industry
Important
Said
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" If the financial system collapses, it's really, really hard to put it back together again. "
Henry Paulson
Together
System
Hard
" I prefer to work at the policy level, on trying to fix flawed government policies. "
Henry Paulson
Fix
Government
Work
" I don't know anyone that says, 'Boy, I had a great career, and I'm happy because I screwed up my life outside of my career, my family life.' There's no one that feels that way. "
Henry Paulson
Life
My Life
Boy
" 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. "
Henry Paulson
Economy
Strong
Stress
" I grew up on a farm - I know the smell of horse manure. It does smell better than pig manure. "
Henry Paulson
Know
Horse
Farm
" 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. "
Henry Paulson
Healthy
Political
Environmental
" 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. "
Henry Paulson
Financial
Need
Look
" Too often, we restrict trade that would create U.S. jobs and is in our national interest. "
Henry Paulson
Interest
Trade
Too
" Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, U.S. payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over $13 trillion. "
Henry Paulson
Over
Settle
Important
" If a financial institution has business operations in the United States, hires people in the United States, if they are clogged with illiquid assets, they have the same impact on the American people as any other institution. "
Henry Paulson
Financial
American
Business
" A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better chance of identifying and limiting the impact of future speculative bubbles. "
Henry Paulson
Information
Future
Chance
" When it comes to the presidency, I will not vote for Donald Trump. "
Henry Paulson
Presidency
Donald Trump
Vote
" China needs a currency that reflects underlying economic fundamentals. "
Henry Paulson
China
Economic
Fundamentals
" Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligation for due diligence. "
Henry Paulson
Today
Diligence
Process
" Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution. "
Henry Paulson
Financial
Never
Architecture
" U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market. "
Henry Paulson
Market
More
China
" Prime Minister Singh is to be commended for beginning the process of transforming India into a global economic power by initiating economic liberalization in the early 1990s. "
Henry Paulson
Power
Beginning
Process
" What began as a subprime lending problem has spread to other, less risky mortgages and contributed to excess home inventories that have pushed down home prices for responsible homeowners. "
Henry Paulson
Home
Down
Responsible
" I grew up with a strong set of values - and one was never judging someone by how much money they had. "
Henry Paulson
Money
Strong
Someone
" We must limit the perception that some institutions are either too big or too interconnected to fail. "
Henry Paulson
Some
Perception
Must
" Every good businessman or woman carefully analyzes all the available facts before making a decision. "
Henry Paulson
Woman
Before
Decision
" In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics. "
Henry Paulson
Society
Important
Ethics
" India is a vibrant nation whose strength lies in its commitment to equal rights and to speech, religious and economic freedoms that enrich the lives of all citizens. India is not only the world's largest democracy; it is also a secular, pluralistic society committed to inclusive growth. "
Henry Paulson
Growth
Commitment
Strength
" A Fed loan to Lehman Brothers would not have prevented a bankruptcy. "
Henry Paulson
Would
Brothers
Bankruptcy
" 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. "
Henry Paulson
Me
Teacher
Trees
" We don't have the necessary laws or powers to deal with failing non-bank institutions. If they're a big bank, the depositor has deposit insurance, and the regulators can wind them down without throwing them into bankruptcy. "
Henry Paulson
Wind
Bank
Down
" I grew up on a working farm. It was small, a hundred acres, but we had cows and pigs and chickens and sheep and a vegetable garden. I spent hours pulling weeds, hoeing, feeding the horses, cleaning out the stalls. My dad was a tough taskmaster. I always worked, but we also had fun. "
Henry Paulson
Cleaning
Small
Tough
" I would come to New York, work, and then get out of New York. I didn't go out to dinner with other people on the Management Committee. I didn't socialize. I didn't politick. "
Henry Paulson
Management
Work
New York
" If AIG collapsed, it would have buckled our financial system and wrought economic havoc on the lives of millions of our citizens. "
Henry Paulson
Economic
Citizens
System
" Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity. "
Henry Paulson
Looking
Growth
Environmental