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.

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.

A writer of any merit does not worry about being accepted everywhere. He must write to inspire, to change for the better or to challenge the status quo!

The price you will offer yourself to the world, is how much they will buy you.

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress.

A lot of people have come up after Brookland and asked, "What happens to her at the end of the novel?" and I will very politely say, well, here are the two possibilities.

Some of the players are known as scorers or assists. I guess what I am known as being is an ironwoman.

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.

Somebody's been putting pineapple juice in my pineapple juice!