to take strong steps... to create confidence and to build on the very strong foundation for prosperity that Indonesia enjoys.

True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.

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.