Henry Paulson Quotes

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Henry Paulson

Profession : Public Servant

Birth : March 28, 1946

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

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

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

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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.

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My preference is for the Federal Reserve to be the systemic risk regulator, because the responsibility for identifying and limiting potential problems is a natural complement to its role in monetary policy.

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A Fed loan to Lehman Brothers would not have prevented a bankruptcy.

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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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One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets.

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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.

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A state-based regulatory system is quite burdensome. It allows price controls to create market distortions. It can hinder development of national products and can directly impact the competitiveness of U.S. insurers.

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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.

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

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One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing.

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We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.

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In the past, if a homeowner with a mortgage had a problem making the payment, often he'd get together with a lender and strike a deal, because foreclosures are very expensive to the lender and obviously not good for the homeowner and the community.

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I've always said, 'I don't want to be irrelevant.'

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

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I didn't get the charm gene.

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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.

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As a Christian Scientist, I don't go to doctors and get diagnoses.

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