The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself.

A global world needs global firewalls.

If Lehman Brothers had been a bit more Lehman Sisters ... we would not have had the degree of tragedy that we had as a result of what happened.

Countries like Canada, Korea, China, Germany can and should use fiscal space. Some of them are doing it, not all.

Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending . . . when women do better, economies do better.

I think I have a male side about me and you have a female side about you. It's a question of repressing or not.

We draw many benefits from globalization that people take for granted. Poverty has been reduced massively around the world. If you look at the Chinese numbers, it is quite mind-boggling: 700 million people taken out of poverty in a matter of 40 years, the poverty rate having moved from over 30 per cent from hardly six per cent now. That would not have happened if there had not been globalization.