Henry Paulson Quotes

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

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• What I’ve said repeatedly is, ‘I think the auto industry is a very important industry.’

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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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• Too often, we restrict trade that would create U.S. jobs and is in our national interest.

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

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• There is a very real danger that financial regulation will become a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

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• Regulation needs to catch up with innovation.

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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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• One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Henry Paulson (57)

Birth:	28th March, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Banker, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Politician

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Hank Paulson is an American banker who served as the 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury. He had served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs, and is now chairman of the Paulson Institute, which he founded in 2011 to promote sustainable economic growth and a cleaner environment around the world, with an initial focus on the United States and China.

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