I have relied on prayer for health care all of my life.

The first priority is to make sure we have capital to continue to have capital available to put into the financial system. That's the first priority.

One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing.

For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.

There is a very real danger that financial regulation will become a wolf in sheep's clothing.

There's a lot of things we could do better.

The U.S. didn't save enough; we borrowed a lot. There were structural imbalances in Asia with exporters, with oil exporters for a whole variety of things.