Foreclosures are a significant problem; they're an economic problem.

I think history shows that countries have to have some kind of a threshold level of economic success before they begin to have the means and the will to focus on the environment.

Every good businessman or woman carefully analyzes all the available facts before making a decision.

After I left Treasury, I think in some ways it was harder to sit there and be writing my book... listening to all the criticism.

Predators, they're the best coal miners' canary. When they're gone, you've got a sick ecosystem.

Sovereign wealth fund money should be welcomed. The only way not to welcome that money is when it's politically driven.

I know the automakers are important to the United States. We care about the automobile industry.

I supported some very, very objectionable things in terms of bailouts or rescues, but I did it not for Wall Street, but for the American people.

It's better to have the taxpayer pay for the losses than have the United States of America become an economic wasteland. If the financial system collapses, it's really, really hard to put it back together again.

China's growth and stability is a vital issue for all nations.

As our relationship with China grows and matures, tensions will naturally emerge.

Frankly I'm a bit concerned when it comes to U.S.-China relations.

When I left the Treasury, there was a poll that showed - and I don't remember the numbers exactly right - something like 90% of the people were against TARP. It prevented a disaster, but you don't get credit for a disaster that people don't see.

I am suspicious of career engineers, people that plan it out every step of the way.

I don't know anyone that says, 'Boy, I had a great career, and I'm happy because I screwed up my life outside of my career, my family life.' There's no one that feels that way.

If the only way you can do well is working more hours than someone else, you're going to lose out because there's always going to be someone who is going to work more.

Simply put, a Trump presidency is unthinkable.

I'll be voting for Hillary Clinton, with the hope that she can bring Americans together to do the things necessary to strengthen our economy, our environment, and our place in the world.

No matter how the financial system is set up, no matter what the economic system is, as long as you have people, you're going to have financial crises; you're going to have bubbles that manifest themselves in the financial system.

China has a more assertive, proactive foreign policy as its interests are growing around the world.

I think the Chinese are wise. After all, they know the U.S. is in a very different league than Russia. The U.S. is the major power in the world, and the US-China relationship... is very important to global stability, to sustain global economic growth.

I believe some of the tensions the U.S. has had with Russia and that the Europeans have had with Russia... China is taking advantage of some of those dealings.

It is important that China stop its over-reliance on municipal debt to finance infrastructure. I take comfort in the fact that China's leaders understand this.

I would come to New York, work, and then get out of New York. I didn't go out to dinner with other people on the Management Committee. I didn't socialize. I didn't politick.

When you're boiling in oil, in the middle of a crisis, the challenges are so consuming there is no time for anything else.

Size is the enemy of excellence in investment banking, particularly when you are trying to put together two different cultures.

The cheapest and cleanest energy is the energy you don't use.

If AIG collapsed, it would have buckled our financial system and wrought economic havoc on the lives of millions of our citizens.

In the city of Pyongyang, you don't have to look very far to see an image of the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung. They love the guy. He is responsible for the wonder that is North Korea.

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well.

For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16, and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that.

Live music is the cure for what ails ya.

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.

The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.

I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.

Guns are part of the American identity.

Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?

Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

When I'm off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days a week. Every afternoon, whatever I have at hand, beets, carrots, ginger, whatever. I juice, literally, every single day. And on the road, I try to find fresh juice wherever I can.

I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.

I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great.

There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.

I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.

I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.