This is something new. This is an intensified focus and allocation of enforcement resources in the most effective way,

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.

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.