We represent companies from around the world who say, "I want to look at Japanese companies. I want to invest in Japan."

The Trump administration's economic agenda is the right agenda. Corporate taxes have been driving capital and brains and companies overseas for a decade. It has caused huge damage in investment and jobs and productivity. It was a mistake. We have to fix it. Counterintuitively, that usually helps middle-class wages, and lower-class wages, and job formation.

You never know exactly how new policies are going to work. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try them.

I believe it's a good thing that people say, "Can we find a way to live together in peace?" And they did, for the most part.

Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo.

I think the politics have gotten better in the United States, which makes it easier to pass legislation, budgets and treaties.

Not every company went bankrupt. Not every bank needed TARP [Troubled Asset Relief Program]. So I'm very proud that JPMorgan, throughout that time period, was completely steadfast. We bought Bear Stearns because we thought we were helping the situation. We didn't cut and run.