Henry Paulson

I hope to help the Indian government advance their economic reform agenda, which will benefit India's citizens and the world.

An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than governmental intervention.

Non-bank financial institutions provide credit that is essential to U.S. businesses and consumers.

A study by Treasury economists estimated that a country with a tax rate one percentage point lower than another country's attracts 3 percent more capital. It's not surprising then, that average OECD corporate tax rates have trended steadily downward.

Let's not forget, what TARP did allowed us to move overnight and put capital into hundreds of banks, and that money came back plus $32 billion.

I look forward to the day when China has a truly market-determined solution... To get there, you need to have a currency that is market-determined, an open capital market, and you are going to need a competitive, open financial system.

When the financial system works as it should, money and capital flow to and from households and businesses to pay for home loans, school loans, and investments to create jobs.

I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers.

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

China needs a currency that reflects underlying economic fundamentals.

I'd have liked to have been another Faulkner, of course.

The idea of being Treasury secretary in the abstract appealed to me, but my initial inclination was that it wasn't right for me to take that step.