199 Quotes by Henry Paulson

I'm telling you that there is no silver bullet to keep home prices from going down or to prevent all foreclosures.

If you've got a bazooka, and people know you've got it, you may not have to take it out.

Illiquid asset purchases are all about capital and encouraging private capital to come in.

Investment banks are increasingly using their own balance sheets to extend credit to clients, to assume market risk on their behalf and sometimes to co-invest alongside them. Investment banking serves as the main initial point of contact with all of Goldman Sachs for our clients.

In the past, if a homeowner with a mortgage had a problem making the payment, often he'd get together with a lender and strike a deal, because foreclosures are very expensive to the lender and obviously not good for the homeowner and the community.

I think all of us know that what we went through in the last half of the Nineties is not sustainable. We're going to need to adjust ourselves to a period of more normal growth. How we think about managing our businesses in that environment is the tricky question we're all grappling with.

The Chinese have done some extraordinary things in terms of the investments they've made in alternative sources of energy.

A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better chance of identifying and limiting the impact of future speculative bubbles.

Regulation needs to catch up with innovation.