To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.

...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.