We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to evolve to a more flexible exchange rate system.

We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.

There is not an alternative to the US as the engine for growth.

I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.

We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.

Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.

To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.

So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.

We also need a fund that can say 'no'.

Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

...cities are murky places - hatching grounds for monsters...

Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them through a special lens — but maybe if it’s how you see them, that’s how they really are.

As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone.

The old paradigm taught that if you had the right teaching, you will experience God. The new paradigm says that if you experience God, you will have the right teaching.

Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me.

Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men.

With the Savior's power and light we will be enabled to push back the darkness of the world.

We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.

I don't know a man on this Earth who can outwork me.

Whatever I lack in talent I have in stamina.