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I am not responsible for the financial crisis, I hate to tell you.

We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.

I can never predict what the markets will do. Sometimes it does the exact opposite of what I would have expected.

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

I'm a lousy predictor of the future.

The financial and economic crash of 2008, the worst in over 75 years, is a major geopolitical setback for the United States and Europe.

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.

I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.