Paulson Quotes & Sayings

There is no way to stabilize the markets other than through government intervention. — Henry Paulson

In 23 years in newsrooms, I saw consistent and concerted efforts to get stories right. Clearly, the public's not convinced. — Ken Paulson

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

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

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

To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible. — Sarah Paulson

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work. — Sarah Paulson

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise. — Sarah Paulson

There are rules, and when certain things happen, there are ceratin consequences. — Sarah Paulson

As Americans, we shouldn't like bailouts. Where I come from, if someone takes a risk and they're going to make the profit from that risk, they shouldn't have the taxpayer pay for the losses. — Henry Paulson

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

I didn't get the charm gene. — Henry Paulson

The Bush administration has now provided three case studies in arrogance, isolation and destructiveness: Michael Brown during Hurricane Katrina, Ambassador Jerry Bremer in Baghdad and Secretary Paulson at Treasury. It is a tragic and very expensive legacy. No conservative and no Republican should doubt how much it has hurt our cause and our party. — Newt Gingrich

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

There is a very real danger that financial regulation will become a wolf in sheep's clothing. — Henry Paulson

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

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution. — Henry Paulson

I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless - by choice - at this point, and I don't know what will happen. — Sarah Paulson

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

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

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

All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go. — Sarah Paulson

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

It is the policy of the federal government to use all resources at its disposal to make our financial system stronger. — Henry Paulson

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

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

I've been through periods of stress, turbulence in the market for over the course of my career, various times, and never in any of those other periods have we had the advantage of a strong economy underpinning the markets. — Henry Paulson

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

That's an area of particular satisfaction, where we made a difference? — Ken Paulson

Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now as we work off some of the past excesses. But the American people can remain confident in the soundness and the resilience of our financial system. — Henry Paulson

What I've said repeatedly is, 'I think the auto industry is a very important industry.' — Henry Paulson

I played a lesbian reporter in 1964, who was incarcerated, and ended the series as a 75-year-old woman. And then, I was a witch blinded by acid who became the Supreme, and took my mother's energy and life, so that I could live and she would die. And then, I was conjoined twins. And then, I played a heroin addict. — Sarah Paulson

For decades, Indians have immigrated to the United States, joined our communities, and raised their families while maintaining their cultural heritage. — Henry Paulson

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

You should only work on the one idea that you are extremely passionate about and believe has the best chance of success. — Matthew Paulson

To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time. — Sarah Paulson

Hank Paulson, the happy capitalist warrior who spent his life pursuing and defending free markets, is now the biggest interventionist Treasury secretary we've had since the Great Depression. — Charles Duhigg

The discrepancy between equity earnings yields and Treasury yields is at an all time high — John Paulson

China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon. — Henry Paulson

Steven Tepper's Not Here, Not Now, Not That! offers invaluable insights into how social change and uncertainty drive protests over art. With fresh data and perspectives, Tepper makes a compelling case that cultural conflicts are largely homegrown, tied to each community's shifting demographics and values. It's an eye-opening work. — Ken Paulson

Too often, we restrict trade that would create U.S. jobs and is in our national interest. — Henry Paulson

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

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

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

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

I'm telling you that there is no silver bullet to keep home prices from going down or to prevent all foreclosures. — Henry Paulson

The people in a position to resolve the financial crisis were, of course, the very same people who had failed to foresee it: Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, future Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack, Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit, and so on. A few Wall Street CEOs had been fired for their roles in the subprime mortgage catastrophe, but most remained in their jobs, and they, of all people, became important characters operating behind the closed doors, trying to figure out what to do next. With them were a handful of government officials - the same government officials who should have known a lot more about what Wall Street firms were doing, back when they were doing it. All shared a distinction: They had proven far less capable of grasping basic truths in the heart of the U.S. financial system than a one-eyed money manager with Asperger's syndrome. — Michael Lewis

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

When the economy is growing, there's a lot that can be done to deal with the deficit. — Henry Paulson

I passionately disagreed with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's plan to bail out the banks by using a public fund called the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to help banks take toxic assets off their balance sheets. I argued that it would be much better to put the money where the hole was and replenish the equity of the banks themselves. — George Soros

The theater commitment is hard, especially in conjunction with a television commitment. That's a big, long commitment. — Sarah Paulson

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

Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself. — Sarah Paulson

Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligation for due diligence. — Henry Paulson

I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained. — Henry Paulson

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

I am a person who is not mated. — Sarah Paulson

I work in the '60s more than I've done anything else. I did a movie, called 'Down with Love', in the '60s. I did a movie for HBO about the Johnson administration in the '60s. — Sarah Paulson

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

I've always really made my living in television. Television has always been so good to me. — Sarah Paulson

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

If you've got a bazooka, and people know you've got it, you may not have to take it out. — Henry Paulson

No, I'm not a Republican working in Hollywood, I am a Democrat. — Sarah Paulson

I think buying a home is the best investment that any individual can make — John Paulson

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

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

I've never been antiregulation. I've always believed that raw, unregulated capitalism doesn't work. — Henry Paulson

His name is Robert Paulson. — Victor LaValle

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

Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity. — Henry Paulson

Grandma Vera said something I've treasured since: "If you read something often enough, no one can take it away from you." How — Terry L. Paulson

As the Indian government has embraced greater economic openness, the creativity and expertise of the Indian workforce has been unleashed onto the world economic stage. — Henry Paulson

I love the idea of people walking away with the idea of hope and possibility. — Sarah Paulson

In China, export lobbies have fought for policies that favor their interests and limit foreign competition. — Henry Paulson

China saves too much, produces too much, sells too much to Americans and consumes too little. — Henry Paulson

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

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

Beauty in gloom is still beauty. — Elizabeth Paulson

If you heard me sing, you would just plug your ears and run, screaming, the other way. I promise. — Sarah Paulson

Anticompetitive practices hurt Chinese private firms nearly as much as foreign ones. — Henry Paulson

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

If the financial system collapses, it's really, really hard to put it back together again. — Henry Paulson

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

One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets. — Henry Paulson

From the beginning of time, we've had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for the root causes, they're almost always failed government policies. — Henry Paulson

A Fed loan to Lehman Brothers would not have prevented a bankruptcy. — Henry Paulson

The idea of being on a show where each season stands alone, and you can come back the next year and show an entirely different aspect of your personality or your talent or your anything is an enormous gift that you rarely get in television. — Sarah Paulson

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

One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing. — Henry Paulson

The worst is likely to be behind us — Henry Paulson

NEW YORK Climate change is likely to exact enormous costs on U.S. regional economies in the form of lost property, reduced industrial output and more deaths, according to a report backed by three men with vast business experience. The report, released Tuesday, is designed to persuade businesses to factor in the cost of climate change in their long-term decisions and to push for reductions in emissions blamed for heating the planet. It was commissioned by the Risky Business Project, which describes itself as nonpartisan and is chaired by former New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, former Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. and Thomas F. Steyer, a former Bay Area hedge fund manager. — Anonymous

Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together. — Henry Paulson

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

If I had my druthers, I would be working in all different mediums, forever. — Sarah Paulson

I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments. — Henry Paulson

I see the underlying economy as being very healthy, — Henry Paulson

China needs a currency that reflects underlying economic fundamentals. — Henry Paulson

The Chinese have done some extraordinary things in terms of the investments they've made in alternative sources of energy. — Henry Paulson

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

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