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. – Henry Paulson
If you’ve got a bazooka, and people know you’ve got it, you may not have to take it out. – Henry Paulson
I always told people in the private sector, ‘You can be the smartest person in the world, you can have the very best ideas, but if you can’t sell them and you can’t get other people to work with you, you’re not going to succeed.’ – Henry Paulson
Too often, we restrict trade that would create U.S. jobs and is in our national interest. – Henry Paulson
I’ve been through periods of stress, turbulence in the market for over the course of my career, various times, and never in any of those other periods have we had the advantage of a strong economy underpinning the markets. – Henry Paulson
It is the policy of the federal government to use all resources at its disposal to make our financial system stronger. – Henry Paulson
When the economy is growing, there’s a lot that can be done to deal with the deficit. – Henry Paulson
I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments. – Henry Paulson
For decades, Indians have immigrated to the United States, joined our communities, and raised their families while maintaining their cultural heritage. – Henry Paulson
Foreclosure is to no one’s benefit. I’ve heard estimates that mortgage investors lose 40 to 50 percent on their investment if it goes into foreclosure. – Henry Paulson
When you have a big, ugly problem, there’s never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost. – Henry Paulson
What I’ve said repeatedly is, ‘I think the auto industry is a very important industry.’ – Henry Paulson
As the Indian government has embraced greater economic openness, the creativity and expertise of the Indian workforce has been unleashed onto the world economic stage. – Henry Paulson
Every global concern – economic, environmental or security-related – can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together. – Henry Paulson
Illiquid asset purchases are all about capital and encouraging private capital to come in. – Henry Paulson
Non-bank financial institutions provide credit that is essential to U.S. businesses and consumers. – Henry Paulson
China saves too much, produces too much, sells too much to Americans and consumes too little. – Henry Paulson
U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America’s fastest-growing export market. – Henry Paulson
China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon. – Henry Paulson
I’ve never been antiregulation. I’ve always believed that raw, unregulated capitalism doesn’t work. – Henry Paulson
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. – Henry Paulson
I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers. – Henry Paulson
Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, U.S. payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over $13 trillion. – Henry Paulson