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I don't believe in regret.

The whole idea of having a free trade area when you have gyrating exchange rates doesn't make sense at all. It just spoils the effect of any kind of free trade agreement.

I truly don't believe in regret.

You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.

We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly.

I don't believe in having regrets.

I don't have any regrets in my life actually. I think that's a pretty good policy.

I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.

A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.