Our systems are all go. At 9:30 Monday morning trading will resume on both markets, and the message will be given to criminals who foisted this on America that they lost.

Clearly there are always unintended consequences of any legislative or regulatory act that's taken in the heat of battle.

Let's take a timeout. Let's allow investors the opportunity in a period of market calm to re-examine what's happened and to deploy new strategies into the marketplace.

The globalization of the capital market is actually part of economic globalization. This will create a change in the entire world economy, not just restricted to some fields in some countries.

This is a basic requirement the meaning of globalization is that we should admit that the economy of each country is dependent on the economy of all the others.

What the American people don't understand is how Merrill Lynch or AIG or Lehman Brothers can reward people, and the entity fails. Not only do the shareholders lose, but the entities lose.

For the past 36 years, I have had the honor and privilege of working for what I believe is the greatest equities market in the world, the New York Stock Exchange.... I believe this course is in the best interests of both the exchange and myself.

I don't think there's any reservation, that Monday at 9:30 (a.m. ET), the opening bell as we've come to know it will ring here and trading will commence,

Clearly access to the facility will be tightened,

In the course of the next few days we will do all the required stress testing that's required of our industry, ... To make sure that by Monday morning the American people are served by the finest capital market the world has known.