The off-center portrait (of Lincoln and Hamilton) has been enlarged; the fine lines printed behind both the portraits are now much more difficult to replicate than the earlier original,

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.

It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets.

I think the G7 statement speaks for itself and I don't want to add to what it says, ... I don't want to go beyond the language in the communiqué.

We believe the global expansion needs to be balanced up, not balanced down, ... An adjustment should take place in our countries through increased public savings. Internationally, there needs to be an adjustment through an increase in exports rather than reduced imports.