"it is remarkable--and I think this is why Congress is at record low levels of approval--that we cannot step up, almost un-American that we cannot do our job relative to what is being asked of other people around the world."
"I share, Chairman Schapiro, your concern that if you have got to have an intervention and whether that intervention is de minimis or larger, if it is breaking the buck, it has the potential of startin..."
"Risk is an everyday feature of our financial system."
"This episode demonstrates an extraordinary failure of risk management."
"We must have a regulatory regime that determines what risks can be undertaken by which financial institutions."
"I would like both your comments in terms of have you had the tools you need to kind of evaluate the back and forth on creation of living wills."
"the notion of formal or informal--probably better informal, Dr. Bergsten--of a G2 idea, I think, makes enormous sense."
"I would like to call to order this hearing of the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Security and International Trade and Finance entitled 'Reviewing the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue'."
"we have a potential, still, to blow this relationship, and China, as they try to move toward, I think we all agree, toward this consumption-based approach."
"thank goodness we already have in place higher capital requirements, so there is not a systemic risk or a risk to the institution"
"You cannot take risk out of the marketplace."