Henry Paulson Quotes

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Henry Paulson

Profession : Public Servant

Birth : March 28, 1946

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

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In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

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In my experience, the most effective professionals in business and government have the ability to get things done. They're trained to work with multiple stakeholders, to understand how to identify a problem, devise solutions, to compromise and work well with others.

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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.

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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.

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Predators, they're the best coal miners' canary. When they're gone, you've got a sick ecosystem.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The income disparity is a huge issue. And I think that the only solution to this - there is no easy solution - are fundamental changes. That the world is changing quicker than our policies are changing. And we need the kinds of policies that will let us have a competitive economy going forward.

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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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I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies.

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

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When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.

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I always told people in the private sector, 'You can be the smartest person in the world, you can have the very best ideas, but if you can't sell them and you can't get other people to work with you, you're not going to succeed.'

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China saves too much, produces too much, sells too much to Americans and consumes too little.

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

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Complexity and interconnectedness matter as much as size in assessing risk in banking.

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Illiquid asset purchases are all about capital and encouraging private capital to come in.

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