I don't think a bankruptcy is a good thing.

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.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

Piper wondered if Olympian gods ever blasted their kids with lightning for being evil, or grounded them in the Underworld.

If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.

We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any.

An undefined goal is unreachable.

...human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create.

It is not the nature of the task, but its consecration, that is the vital thing.

Leave war to others; 'tis Protesilaus' part of love.

The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.