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"Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles."
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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."
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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."
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"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."
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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."
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"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."
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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."
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"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."
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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."
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"Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act."
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"I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think."
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"The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment, private."
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"Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances."
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"The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move."
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"I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think there's going to be a good case for that."
Finance

"The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it."
Mistake

"We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households."
Home

"I think we're not going to preserve Fannie and Freddie in anything like their current form. We're going to have to bring fundamental change to that market."
Change

"Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through."
Finance

"Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and in the infrastructure of the financial system."
Finance

"Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles."
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