I am struck that so many of our leaders in the U.S. forget how strong our country can be.

You have your own culture and your own ways of doing things. I hope Japan continues on this path.

It's good for America when the rest of the world grows, because you can sell more to the rest of the world.

We, Americans, have the best country on the planet. We have schools, universities, food, water, energy, peaceful neighbors, low corruption, you name it, deepest and widest capital markets. That doesn't mean we shouldn't identify problems. We don't have a divine right to success.

We invested in the downturn and we never stopped serving our clients.

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

A bank is a relationship. I can't desert you and expect to have a strong relationship afterward. If I told someone, "I know you've been buying milk from me and you need milk to survive. But the price is no longer $2 a gallon. It's going to be $40 a gallon. I'm going to bankrupt you." What do you guys think of me? You would hate us.