95 Quotes by Robert Rubin

With the safeguards we have proposed, ... subsidiaries and affiliates are absolutely identical with respect to the ability of a bank to transfer any subsidy that may exist in the bank.

We always have to be watchful with respect to anything that can affect our system, ... But I don't know of anything in that area that rises to the level of a systemic risk to our economy at this time.

The only role we can play is to continue to very actively work to persuade the Japanese government to face these very difficult issues they have to deal with,

We very strongly want to see good financial services modernization legislation passed this year, ... The bill that came out of the Senate banking committee does not meet these requisites.

The Prime Minister said earlier in the year that his objectives were domestic demand-led growth and I think he's taken very important and very constructive steps in that direction and we very much welcome them,

Obviously, the present atmosphere makes it more difficult, ... It is imperative we get together as quickly as possible.

Nothing in my 26 years on Wall Street or my six years in government suggests that there is any predictive capability even remotely reliable enough for such a system, ... In addition, the early warning itself could create precisely the instability and even panic that such a system is designed to prevent.

I would say again now that China could be the largest economy in the world within the next few decades -- though accomplishing that will be no easy task.

I do not think a tax cut contributes to our economic well-being,