"I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I said."

"We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda."

"If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said. -- Speaking to a Senate Committee in 1987, as quoted in the Guardian Weekly, November 4, 2005."

"The only way to have several currencies from divergent nations lumped together is if they are culturally close, such as Germany, the Netherlands and Austria. If they aren't, it simply can't continue to work."

"We had a bubble in housing."

"Government regulation cannot substitute for individual integrity."