Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we'll buy them.

When the secretary of treasury, the head of the central bank, the head of the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.), and the head of the New York Fed say, "We want you to do this because we think it's in the best interest of the United States of America," you know, we're like the Japanese. We're a little patriotic that way. We said, "Yes, sir!"

We have a lot of people who are Republicans, a lot of people who are Democrats, and it's not just because of business reasons.

Our global corporate investment bank competes with Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and a bunch of other banks that are in those businesses. We may have slightly different products or services, but so what? That's always been true in American business.

That's probably good, all things being equal, for emerging markets, not bad, even though it may not be great for all their currencies.

If the economy grows, housing gets better, quicker.

People always say to me, "What if it doesn't work?" If it doesn't work, we redouble our effort. We're not going to cry like a bunch of babies. We're going to redouble our effort.