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.

The IRS needs to be more responsive to taxpayers, to use technology more effectively and to be more efficient,

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.

I figure people are good enough to donate it, it needs to be there for future relatives.

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.