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

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's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

The federal government views the Constitution as its enemy.

At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial quest for a flourishing life.

However, the Government has made it clear that we do not encourage the recruitment of teachers from developing nations where there may be an adverse effect on the economy.

Autism is a complicated illness, and children with a variety of treatments and non-treatments show improvement over time, which is all to the good.

It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.

As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.

Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talent