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Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury Inspirational Quotes (127)

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We have parts of our system which are overwhelmed by regulation. It wasn't the absence of regulation that was the problem. It was despite the presence of regulation you got huge risks built up.
Timothy Geithner
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It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.
David F. Houston
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All of us as consumers have gotten spoiled, ... We expect customized goods and services at commodity prices. The only way we can do that is to cut the fat out of our price structure.
Robert Rubin
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Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction the one cannot exist without the other.
William E. Simon
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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
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A Fed loan to Lehman Brothers would not have prevented a bankruptcy.
Henry Paulson
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One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.
David F. Houston
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The high food value of field beans and the shortage of supply due to the light yields of 1915 and 1916 render them of great importance in the regions to which they are adapted.
David F. Houston
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Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.
David F. Houston
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And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way we could improve the grid.
John W. Snow
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Well, I make a practice of not commenting on the role of the relative exchange value of our currency.
John W. Snow
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But clearly an economy that's growing and expanding like this one - and it certainly is doing that with high GDP output, employment numbers strong, capacity utilization strong - that's an environment in which the Fed needs to continually be alert to early signs of inflation.
John W. Snow
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The first priority is to make sure we have capital to continue to have capital available to put into the financial system. That's the first priority.
Henry Paulson
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To be manager of the Yankees under the malevolent dictatorship of George Steinbrenner is like being married to Zsa Zsa Gabor - the union is short and sweet.
Robert Rubin
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The soy-bean, in particular, has proved sufficiently resistant to cold in spring and to adverse weather during summer to warrant heavy planting, especially throughout the South.
David F. Houston
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A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better chance of identifying and limiting the impact of future speculative bubbles.
Henry Paulson
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Our GDP growth rates are creating - our high GDP growth rates, the success of our economy means we're creating lots of disposable income.
John W. Snow
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If you really want to help the poor, help the rich. They're the ones who will invest, build more factories, create more jobs.
William E. Simon
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Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.
David F. Houston
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Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
William E. Simon
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The problems we face are human problems and therefore are capable of human solutions.
Fred M. Vinson
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The rest of the world needs the U.S. economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain at the center of global economic activity with financial and trade ties to every region of the globe.
Timothy Geithner
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Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done
Timothy Geithner
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We're focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important secondly, keep growth rates high, very important.
John W. Snow
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