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The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people.

When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.

We don't think much about the up and down of the public market.

Markets are a good thing, and they are the best way of ensuring we have fairness.

Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.

Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.

One of the appeals of markets, as a public philosophy, is they seem to spare us the need to engage in public arguments about the meaning of goods. So markets seem to enable us to be non-judgmental about values. But I think that's a mistake.

Markets that don't work we're going to step away from.

What we lack is a good, strong business climate with lower taxes, fairer regulation.

The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn't protect the environment unless it's regulated, it doesn't train your workforce unless it's regulated, and it doesn't give you the long-term investment you want.