I have great, great confidence in our capital markets and in our financial institutions. Our financial institutions, banks and investment banks, are strong. Our capital markets are resilient. They're efficient. They're flexible.

I see the underlying economy as being very healthy.

Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets.

The most pressing and significant problems in the global economy are unsustainable structural issues with regard to the E.U. - fiscal deficits and the structure of the E.U. itself.

A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better chance of identifying and limiting the impact of future speculative bubbles.