All this suggests a deeper engagement between India and the US. These cultural connections are sure to build more harmony between the two nations.

There has not been a time in the last century where there has been so much misunderstanding of the US and so much misunderstanding by the US of the world,

The success of the India-US relations depends on connections in other fields. The experiences of young people will shape the future of the India-US relations.

The IMF needs to focus on the fact that it and all of us in government are alongside what are now vast private markets, ... Our role needs to be (to) support rather than supplant those private markets and to try to create a framework in which the flow of private capital will be stable.

We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises.

I promise you that there are a lot of people involved in various kinds of retail activities who think they have a crucial role in the economy, and they're right.