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Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.
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I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip.
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Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
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If AIG collapsed, it would have buckled our financial system and wrought economic havoc on the lives of millions of our citizens.
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Size is the enemy of excellence in investment banking, particularly when you are trying to put together two different cultures.
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When you're boiling in oil, in the middle of a crisis, the challenges are so consuming there is no time for anything else.
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I would come to New York, work, and then get out of New York. I didn't go out to dinner with other people on the Management Committee. I didn't socialize. I didn't politick.
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It is important that China stop its over-reliance on municipal debt to finance infrastructure. I take comfort in the fact that China's leaders understand this.
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I believe some of the tensions the U.S. has had with Russia and that the Europeans have had with Russia... China is taking advantage of some of those dealings.
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I think the Chinese are wise. After all, they know the U.S. is in a very different league than Russia. The U.S. is the major power in the world, and the US-China relationship... is very important to global stability, to sustain global economic growth.
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China has a more assertive, proactive foreign policy as its interests are growing around the world.
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No matter how the financial system is set up, no matter what the economic system is, as long as you have people, you're going to have financial crises; you're going to have bubbles that manifest themselves in the financial system.
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I'll be voting for Hillary Clinton, with the hope that she can bring Americans together to do the things necessary to strengthen our economy, our environment, and our place in the world.
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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.
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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.
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I am suspicious of career engineers, people that plan it out every step of the way.
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When I left the Treasury, there was a poll that showed - and I don't remember the numbers exactly right - something like 90% of the people were against TARP. It prevented a disaster, but you don't get credit for a disaster that people don't see.
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As our relationship with China grows and matures, tensions will naturally emerge.
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It's better to have the taxpayer pay for the losses than have the United States of America become an economic wasteland. If the financial system collapses, it's really, really hard to put it back together again.
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I supported some very, very objectionable things in terms of bailouts or rescues, but I did it not for Wall Street, but for the American people.
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I know the automakers are important to the United States. We care about the automobile industry.
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Sovereign wealth fund money should be welcomed. The only way not to welcome that money is when it's politically driven.
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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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After I left Treasury, I think in some ways it was harder to sit there and be writing my book... listening to all the criticism.
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Every good businessman or woman carefully analyzes all the available facts before making a decision.
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I think history shows that countries have to have some kind of a threshold level of economic success before they begin to have the means and the will to focus on the environment.
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I want to remind you of one thing, which is, when I look around the world and look at the long-term economic fundamentals we have in this country, I think they compare favorably with what I see in any major developed country in the world.
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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.
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I've got to say our banking system is a safe and a sound one. And since the days when we've had federal deposit insurance in place, we haven't had a depositor who's got less than $100,000 in an account lose a penny. So the American people can be very, very confident about their accounts in our banking system.
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There's a great lack of financial literacy and understanding in this nation, even among college-educated people.
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If a financial institution has business operations in the United States, hires people in the United States, if they are clogged with illiquid assets, they have the same impact on the American people as any other institution.
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I think it is asking a lot for regulators to be perfect - because they won't be.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There is big resistance from vested interests in China that don't want to open up to competition.
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When you run a company, you want to hand it off in better shape than you found it. In the same way, just as we shouldn't leave our children or grandchildren with mountains of national debt and unsustainable entitlement programs, we shouldn't leave them with the economic and environmental costs of climate change.
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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.
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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.
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