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

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

I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained.

It's a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation.

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

There's always light at the end of the tunnel, right? It just depends on how long the tunnel is.

I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers.

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

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.

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

Regulation needs to catch up with innovation.

Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion.

Nature is under control but not disturbed.

As Donald Trump's fortunes continue to slide, he's increasingly dragging the fortunes of senate republican's weapon.

If I have one more facelift I'll have a beard!

If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends

God wills, man dreams, the work is born.

Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.

To be a good model, I'd need a lot more confidence... and more confidence to be more bare.

Glasgow Rangers. God I loved playing for them

I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.