"I prefer to work at the policy level, on trying to fix flawed government poli..."
"I prefer to work at the policy level, on trying to fix flawed government policies."
"If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up."
"I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power."
"I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible."
"The future path of the federal funds rate is necessarily uncertain because economic activity and inflation will likely evolve in unexpected ways. For example, no one can be certain about the pace at which economic headwinds will fade. More generally, the economy will inevitably be buffeted by shocks that cannot be foreseen."
"Size is the enemy of excellence in investment banking, particularly when you are trying to put together two different cultures."
"Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems."
"Knowing one thing well empowers you and gives you a set of tricks to the trade that you can apply across the board. Go deep, and it will serve you when you make your choices about where you want to leave your mark."
"Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves."
"In several quarters in the 2000s, if you added up all the private savings of everyone in the United States, it was less than nothing. You can't sustain that as a driver of growth."
"The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest."
"All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?"
"I believe when hard-working citizens have earned their pension, it's wrong for Washington bureaucrats and politicians to take their pensions away."
"Our legacy platforms have served us well for decades, but we're running out of upgrades that will keep us ahead. Technology is changing too fast, and our enemies are too adaptable."
"There are several places in Vietnam where they're teaching computer science from second grade in class, so they don't have a gender divide because everybody is expected to program."
"I don't eat green things, no vegetables."
"Some degree of inequality in income and wealth, of course, would occur even with completely equal opportunity because variations in effort, skill, and luck will produce variations in outcomes."
"Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.'"
"The reality is there's a limit to how many people any country can bring in. And we as a country have a right to say we want to bring people based on their ability to contribute to our economy, to be safe, productive citizens, and to uplift the nation as a whole."
"I'm not going to become an MP and I'm not going to be London Mayor. I have no political ambitions."
"But the - look, I think that this - the United States of America is still the most powerful economy in the world. It is an incredible engine for creativity and innovation. And it has the most - smartest, most effective workforce in the world. So we have a lot going for us, in spite of the fractiousness of our politics."
"And here where the fact that we've given over half a billion dollars to New York really plays a role, because New York has already made a lot of investments in the kinds of things which you'd expect to have as basic security."
"What we know is that people who outright refuse vaccines are a very small group."
"In my judgment, us assisting the Chinese military in advancing technologically is not in U.S. national interests."
"While service in the Department of Justice is itself one of the highest forms of public service, the Department further strides to increase access to justice for all and to strengthen our communities."
