Henry Paulson

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

If the financial system collapses, it's really, really hard to put it back together again.

We need a new tax system. We need entitlement reform. We need immigration reform. These are not easy things. But it is going to take our political system working better.

Many of the Western democracies - including the U.S. - have a problem that voters want benefits they don't want to pay for.

There's a great lack of financial literacy and understanding in this nation, even among college-educated people.

Too often, we restrict trade that would create U.S. jobs and is in our national interest.

From the time the kids were in upper grade school and middle school, we took trips over the Christmas break to nature-focused places, such as the Okefenokee Swamp and Cumberland Island in Georgia; Costa Rica; Maho Bay campground in St. John, Virgin Islands; the llanos of Venezuela; the southern coast and highlands of Belize.

India is one of the world's largest and most peaceful states with advanced nuclear technologies and has been isolated from the rest of the world on nuclear issues.

We must limit the perception that some institutions are either too big or too interconnected to fail.

Size is the enemy of excellence in investment banking, particularly when you are trying to put together two different cultures.

Sovereign wealth fund money should be welcomed. The only way not to welcome that money is when it's politically driven.

As I talk with the Chinese on currency, I encourage them to move much more quickly with opening up their capital markets to competition, because I don't believe the world is going to give them as much time as they would like.