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I was secretary of the Treasu...

I was secretary of the Treasury when the credit bubble burst, so I think it's fair to say that I know a little bit about risk, assessing outcomes, and problem-solving.

Henry Paulson 44 quotes

It is the policy of the feder...

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

Henry Paulson 44 quotes

From the beginning of time, w...

From the beginning of time, we've had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for the root causes, they're almost always failed government policies.

Henry Paulson 44 quotes

Our overriding goal in restru...

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

Henry Paulson 44 quotes

As I talk with the Chinese on...

As I talk with the Chinese on currency, I encourage them to move much more quickly with opening up their capital markets to competition, because I don't believe the world is going to give them as much time as they would like.

Henry Paulson 44 quotes

The Chinese have done some ex...

The Chinese have done some extraordinary things in terms of the investments they've made in alternative sources of energy.

Henry Paulson 44 quotes

A single agency responsible f...

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 44 quotes

Economic growth and environme...

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 44 quotes

I've never been antiregulatio...

I've never been antiregulation. I've always believed that raw, unregulated capitalism doesn't work.

Henry Paulson 44 quotes

When our markets work, people...

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.

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The cheapest and cleanest ene...

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

Henry Paulson 44 quotes

Anticompetitive practices hur...

Anticompetitive practices hurt Chinese private firms nearly as much as foreign ones.

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Large financial institutions ...

Large financial institutions in this country will always play a role that is essential to our economic growth. But they must only be permitted to grow and interconnect, throughout our economy, under careful oversight and with a mechanism for allowing those connections to be broken safely.

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When the financial system wor...

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.

Henry Paulson 44 quotes

An AIG failure would have bee...

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

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To restore confidence in our ...

To restore confidence in our markets and our financial institutions so they can fuel continued growth and prosperity, we must address the underlying problem. The federal government must implement a program to remove these illiquid assets that are weighing down our financial institutions and threatening our economy.

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From the time the kids were i...

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.

Henry Paulson 44 quotes

The financial security of all...

The financial security of all Americans - their retirement savings, their home values, their ability to borrow for college, and opportunities for more and higher-paying jobs - depends on our ability to restore our financial institutions to sound footing.

Henry Paulson 44 quotes

Many of the Western democraci...

Many of the Western democracies - including the U.S. - have a problem that voters want benefits they don't want to pay for.

Henry Paulson 44 quotes

Until we stem the housing cor...

Until we stem the housing correction, until the biggest part of that is behind us and we have more stability in housing prices, we're going to continue to have turmoil in the financial markets.

Henry Paulson 44 quotes

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