Top 100 Paulson's Quotes
#1. With uncertainty in oil markets, a buildup of speculative pressures and the large U.S. current account deficit, there is a real possibility that Paulson's crisis-management skills will be tested.
Lawrence Summers
#2. The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.'
Sarah Paulson
#3. I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers.
Henry Paulson
#4. I love the idea of people walking away with the idea of hope and possibility.
Sarah Paulson
#5. Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.
Henry Paulson
#6. A state-based regulatory system is quite burdensome. It allows price controls to create market distortions. It can hinder development of national products and can directly impact the competitiveness of U.S. insurers.
Henry Paulson
#8. I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people.
Henry Paulson
#9. No, I'm not a Republican working in Hollywood, I am a Democrat.
Sarah Paulson
#10. I didn't know you were Catholic. (to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson as he got down on one knee to beg Pelosi to find Democratic support for the bailout bill)-2008
Nancy Pelosi
#11. It is the policy of the federal government to use all resources at its disposal to make our financial system stronger.
Henry Paulson
#12. When I have brown hair I feel the most like myself, but I don't feel glamorous. It's a disgusting thing to admit.
Sarah Paulson
#13. When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.
Henry Paulson
#14. Great. Now I knew what his penis looked like. I could never have breakfast with the Paulson Pack again. Eating sausage with a straight face would be impossible.
Roxy Mews
#15. If you get on a TV show that's successful, odds are that you're playing the same character for as many years as the show is running, which can be its own blessing, but it can also be a curse because you're playing the same thing and that can be tiresome.
Sarah Paulson
#16. I like the ritual of putting on my makeup, putting on my costume, doing my warm-ups. I eat the same dinner every night before I go on stage. I like having something that I can count on, something that feels stabilizing for me.
Sarah Paulson
#17. Anticompetitive practices hurt Chinese private firms nearly as much as foreign ones.
Henry Paulson
#18. I got a piggy bank and the goal was to fill it up ...
John Paulson
#19. When the economy is growing, there's a lot that can be done to deal with the deficit.
Henry Paulson
#20. If the financial system collapses, it's really, really hard to put it back together again.
Henry Paulson
#21. An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than governmental intervention.
Henry Paulson
#22. Many of the Western democracies - including the U.S. - have a problem that voters want benefits they don't want to pay for.
Henry Paulson
#23. Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.
Sarah Paulson
#24. I have relied on prayer for health care all of my life.
Henry Paulson
#25. Deegan pushed once, twice, and rolled the body in. The current's fast fingers claimed Bobby and in less than two seconds he'd slipped beneath the rippling surface. About ten yards down, he bobbed up and then disappeared again. Oh, look, Bobby was bobbing. I chuckled.
Bonnie R. Paulson
#26. I've never been on a show that's run for more than a season.
Sarah Paulson
#27. My sister's a big karaoke person, and she's never been able to get me to do it.
Sarah Paulson
#28. It's OK to sit in the Golden Globe room and look around and think, 'Oh, Helen Mirren's a loser tonight, so is Nicole Kidman. Meryl Streep lost tonight. Jessica Lange didn't win.' If you're gonna be in the company of losers, that's the company to be in.
Sarah Paulson
#29. In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.
Henry Paulson
#30. Sometimes I think on television, you use maybe a tenth of what you are able to do. So it's nice to go, 'Well, I'm gonna take two months and reinvest in acting and storytelling.' You don't get to do that on television.
Sarah Paulson
#31. I'm addicted to routine. I don't know if that's because I moved around so much as child - by the time I was 12 years old, I had lived in about 10 different places. But I like going to the theater at a certain time.
Sarah Paulson
#32. There is a very real danger that financial regulation will become a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Henry Paulson
#33. Too often, we restrict trade that would create U.S. jobs and is in our national interest.
Henry Paulson
#34. India is a vibrant nation whose strength lies in its commitment to equal rights and to speech, religious and economic freedoms that enrich the lives of all citizens. India is not only the world's largest democracy; it is also a secular, pluralistic society committed to inclusive growth.
Henry Paulson
#35. Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together.
Henry Paulson
#36. Foreclosure is to no one's benefit. I've heard estimates that mortgage investors lose 40 to 50 percent on their investment if it goes into foreclosure.
Henry Paulson
#37. I think it's very important for people to not judge the people you're playing. You have to find a way to love them because their story is theirs. I just don't think there would be any use in that.
Sarah Paulson
#38. I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained.
Henry Paulson
#39. That's an area of particular satisfaction, where we made a difference?
Ken Paulson
#40. I'm telling you that there is no silver bullet to keep home prices from going down or to prevent all foreclosures.
Henry Paulson
#41. I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.
Sarah Paulson
#42. The U.S. and China need to take steps - mostly individually, sometimes together - that will have the mutually beneficial effect of supporting and sustaining economic growth.
Henry Paulson
#43. I've always really made my living in television. Television has always been so good to me.
Sarah Paulson
#44. It's a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation.
Henry Paulson
#46. Even if you don't have the authorities - and frankly I didn't have the authorities for anything - if you take charge, people will follow
Henry Paulson
#47. Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself.
Sarah Paulson
#48. I have always tried to live by the philosophy that when there is a big problem that needs fixing, you should run towards it, rather than away from it.
Henry Paulson
#50. The Chinese have done some extraordinary things in terms of the investments they've made in alternative sources of energy.
Henry Paulson
#51. As I talk with the Chinese on currency, I encourage them to move much more quickly with opening up their capital markets to competition, because I don't believe the world is going to give them as much time as they would like.
Henry Paulson
#52. Anything is possible, and the truth is any human being at any given moment, no matter how good they are - not only at their job but also as a person - they're capable of anything, and it's not always a conscious thing.
Sarah Paulson
#53. Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligation for due diligence.
Henry Paulson
#54. As a child, I could beat most kids in sprints, but overall, wrestling was the most natural sport for me. In fact, I was a pretty good high school wrestler. I was unusually quick and strong.
Henry Paulson
#55. I was a victim of what most people are a victim of, which is really, really just gulping down what was being fed to me by the media.
Sarah Paulson
#56. For decades, Indians have immigrated to the United States, joined our communities, and raised their families while maintaining their cultural heritage.
Henry Paulson
#57. Non-bank financial institutions provide credit that is essential to U.S. businesses and consumers.
Henry Paulson
#58. I'd love to be in the '70s. I'd love to have a big, long wig parted down the middle with flat-ironed hair and bell-bottoms. They're actually very flattering for my figure. The wider the leg, the better for a person with a booty.
Sarah Paulson
#59. In the past, if a homeowner with a mortgage had a problem making the payment, often he'd get together with a lender and strike a deal, because foreclosures are very expensive to the lender and obviously not good for the homeowner and the community.
Henry Paulson
#60. All of my friends went to college and I got a job at Circle Pizza, where I worked for 24 hours. I had to call my mother four times to ask her how to spell Parmesan. I'm not kidding. I was a terrible speller. I think I was really nervous that I somehow didn't feel right out in the world in that way.
Sarah Paulson
#61. We've had crooks from the beginning of time ... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.
Henry Paulson
#62. To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.
Sarah Paulson
#63. Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long term.
John Paulson
#64. When I look at my career, the bulk of it has been television, and I love working in television. But there's a speed at which you do it. You're doing seven to ten pages a day on a series, and it's hard to feel like you're doing the detail-oriented work that I like to do.
Sarah Paulson
#65. Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, U.S. payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over $13 trillion.
Henry Paulson
#66. Many investors make the mistake of buying high and selling low while the exact opposite is the right strategy to outperform over the long term.
John Paulson
#67. India is one of the world's largest and most peaceful states with advanced nuclear technologies and has been isolated from the rest of the world on nuclear issues.
Henry Paulson
#68. I like that feeling in your brain when you've got seven things that you're holding in one moment-you heard that person cough, you heard that person laugh, you're also saying your line, you're also listening to the person who's talking to you.
Sarah Paulson
#69. My great love is the stage because I do feel like it's the place where, if you're lucky and everything is firing in the right way, you have the greatest shot at being successful. I don't mean by getting great reviews, but I mean by finding the core fo the person that you're playing.
Sarah Paulson
#70. I have been sitting around waiting for an opportunity to get to do something that matters for so long. Not just that matters in the world, which I think that season, in particular, had a very important meaning for a lot of people, but for me, as an actress.
Sarah Paulson
#71. I could feel my body temperature - I knew I was bright red. It was so humiliating, I was so upset, and it was nothing I had planned to do. It was just one of those beautiful moments, the alchemy of acting that is so mysterious, where you sort of go, "How did that come out of me?"
Sarah Paulson
#72. I see the underlying economy as being very healthy,
Henry Paulson
#73. The theater commitment is hard, especially in conjunction with a television commitment. That's a big, long commitment.
Sarah Paulson
#74. One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing.
Henry Paulson
#76. One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets.
Henry Paulson
#77. I could never have thought, "I wanna play a two-headed woman." That just never would have occurred to me, in a million years.
Sarah Paulson
#78. I had gone away from Twitter because before people had been so mean to me. Talking about my lisp and my enormous forehead and all these things. I do have a lisp, I do have a forehead I know you could land a plane on, it's no mystery to me. I just didn't have the skin for it.
Sarah Paulson
#79. In China, export lobbies have fought for policies that favor their interests and limit foreign competition.
Henry Paulson
#81. U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market.
Henry Paulson
#82. I always told people in the private sector, 'You can be the smartest person in the world, you can have the very best ideas, but if you can't sell them and you can't get other people to work with you, you're not going to succeed.'
Henry Paulson
#83. My preference is for the Federal Reserve to be the systemic risk regulator, because the responsibility for identifying and limiting potential problems is a natural complement to its role in monetary policy.
Henry Paulson
#84. British Statesman, parliamentary orator and political thinker, Edmund Burke once said, "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it." This is true to say the least.
Robert Paulson
#85. I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I'll never forget it.
Sarah Paulson
#86. I was constantly, always and forever, trying to perform the musical 'Annie' for anyone who would listen, and I have a terrible singing voice. It was the first thing that made me think I wanted to be an actress.
Sarah Paulson
#87. I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.
Henry Paulson
#88. I'm one of those actors who's just standing there, waiting and ready for something to come my way. I don't really try to think about, "Oh, I feel the next thing I should do should be a feature. Now, I think I should do a play." I just hope someone wants to cast me in something.
Sarah Paulson
#89. Once handed the money, Paulson abandoned his promised strategy and instead essentially began giving away billions of dollars to Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and a few others unnaturally selected for survival.
Michael Lewis
#90. I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies
Henry Paulson
#92. China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon.
Henry Paulson
#93. For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.
Henry Paulson
#94. I have great, great confidence in our capital markets and in our financial institutions. Our financial institutions, banks and investment banks, are strong. Our capital markets are resilient. They're efficient. They're flexible.
Henry Paulson
#95. I do like the immediacy of audience's reaction. I like when I can hear the stillness and I know that they're with us.
Sarah Paulson
#96. If you don't own a home, buy one. If you own one home, buy another one. And if you own two homes, buy a third and lend your relatives the money to buy one.
John Paulson
#97. The discrepancy between equity earnings yields and Treasury yields is at an all time high
John Paulson
#98. In 23 years in newsrooms, I saw consistent and concerted efforts to get stories right. Clearly, the public's not convinced.
Ken Paulson
#99. What I've said repeatedly is, 'I think the auto industry is a very important industry.'
Henry Paulson
#100. If you heard me sing, you would just plug your ears and run, screaming, the other way. I promise.
Sarah Paulson
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