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

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" When you look at territorial disputes, there are good arguments on any sides. I think it's important that we don't take sides on legitimacy. "

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

" I think it is asking a lot for regulators to be perfect - because they won't be. "

" From the time the kids were in upper grade school and middle school, we took trips over the Christmas break to nature-focused places, such as the Okefenokee Swamp and Cumberland Island in Georgia; Costa Rica; Maho Bay campground in St. John, Virgin Islands; the llanos of Venezuela; the southern coast and highlands of Belize. "

" 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. "

" One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing. "

" Taxpayer money should not have to be spent to save a misguided and mismanaged enterprise. "

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

" I do not believe the United States and the Americans are going to let Donald Trump become president... I think the challenge is Donald Trump, with his anti-China rhetoric and with his anti-trade rhetoric, is going to make the job for all of us more difficult going forward. "

" I happen to think that global slowdown, the slowdown in investment, strengthening dollar probably provide more of a headwind than we get from the decline in oil prices. "

" 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. "

" I'm telling you that there is no silver bullet to keep home prices from going down or to prevent all foreclosures. "

" The Treasury Department has a critical role to play in helping to set the direction of a U.S. and global economy, a role that reaches back to America's founding. "

" Size is the enemy of excellence in investment banking, particularly when you are trying to put together two different cultures. "

" China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon. "

" 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. "

" When I worry about risks, I worry about the biggest ones, particularly those that are difficult to predict - the ones I call small but deep holes. While odds are you will avoid them, if you do fall in one, it's a long way down and nearly impossible to claw your way out. "

" Xi Jinping is a very strong and ambitious leader who is looking to make a lot of changes in China. He is not looking to follow a Western model based on universal suffrage. That is for sure. "

" 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. "

" Simply put, a Trump presidency is unthinkable. "

" In China, export lobbies have fought for policies that favor their interests and limit foreign competition. "

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

" 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. "

" If the financial system collapses, it's really, really hard to put it back together again. "

" An AIG failure would have been devastating to the financial system and to the economy. "

" When our markets work, people throughout our economy benefit - Americans seeking to buy a car or buy a home, families borrowing to pay for college, innovators borrowing on the strength of a good idea for a new product or technology, and businesses financing investments that create new jobs. "

" 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. "

" When the financial system works as it should, money and capital flow to and from households and businesses to pay for home loans, school loans, and investments to create jobs. "

" If the only way you can do well is working more hours than someone else, you're going to lose out because there's always going to be someone who is going to work more. "

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