When the economy is growing, there's a lot that can be done to deal with the deficit.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

In China, export lobbies have fought for policies that favor their interests and limit foreign competition.

Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together.

The U.S. and China need to take steps - mostly individually, sometimes together - that will have the mutually beneficial effect of supporting and sustaining economic growth.

Non-bank financial institutions provide credit that is essential to U.S. businesses and consumers.

As the Indian government has embraced greater economic openness, the creativity and expertise of the Indian workforce has been unleashed onto the world economic stage.

For decades, Indians have immigrated to the United States, joined our communities, and raised their families while maintaining their cultural heritage.

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.

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

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.'

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

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

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.

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