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" 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. "

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" 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

Teacher

Trees

" India is one of the world's largest and most peaceful states with advanced nuclear technologies and has been isolated from the rest of the world on nuclear issues. "

" I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people. "

Henry Paulson

People

Person

" It is the policy of the federal government to use all resources at its disposal to make our financial system stronger. "

" The idea of being Treasury secretary in the abstract appealed to me, but my initial inclination was that it wasn't right for me to take that step. "

" I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments. "

" 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. "

" We must limit the perception that some institutions are either too big or too interconnected to fail. "

" Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution. "

" No bank should be too big or too complex to fail, but almost any bank is too big to liquidate quickly, particularly in the midst of a crisis. "

" Foreclosure is to no one's benefit. I've heard estimates that mortgage investors lose 40 to 50 percent on their investment if it goes into foreclosure. "

" An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than governmental intervention. "

" 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. "

" The most pressing and significant problems in the global economy are unsustainable structural issues with regard to the E.U. - fiscal deficits and the structure of the E.U. itself. "

" 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

China

" Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligation for due diligence. "

" 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. "

" If you've got a bazooka, and people know you've got it, you may not have to take it out. "

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

" Regulation needs to catch up with innovation. "

" 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. "

" China needs a currency that reflects underlying economic fundamentals. "

" 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. "

" China's growth and stability is a vital issue for all nations. "

" I'd have liked to have been another Faulkner, of course. "

" As Americans, we shouldn't like bailouts. Where I come from, if someone takes a risk and they're going to make the profit from that risk, they shouldn't have the taxpayer pay for the losses. "

Henry Paulson

Risk

Pay

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

" A study by Treasury economists estimated that a country with a tax rate one percentage point lower than another country's attracts 3 percent more capital. It's not surprising then, that average OECD corporate tax rates have trended steadily downward. "

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

" The Fed has neither the clear statutory authority nor the mandate to anticipate and deal with risks across our entire financial system. "