When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.

If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.

In the end, rational policy is always good.

I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.

Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.