Robert Rubin
Robert Rubin
Robert Edward Rubinis an American lawyer, former cabinet member, and retired banking executive. He served as the 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury during the Clinton administration. Before his government service, he spent 26 years at Goldman Sachs, eventually serving as a member of the board and co-chairman from 1990 to 1992; Rubin oversaw the loosening of financial industry underwriting guidelines which had been intact since the 1930s. His most prominent post-government role was as director and senior counselor...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth29 August 1938
CityNew York City, NY
It's very hard to track money in Russia, ... If Russia destabilizes, the cost to the United States is going to be vastly greater.
It is very hard to leave, because I feel deeply committed, ... to this administration, to the people with whom I've worked, to the issues with respect to which so much has been accomplished. But this almost six-and-a-half years has been all consuming, and I think it is time for me to go home to New York and to do whatever I'm going to do next.
We are working hard to reform the IRS, and it would be counterproductive at best, and very harmful at worst, if these hearings undermined morale and damaged our efforts,
The overarching point of the president's economic strategy going forward in the 1999 budget is clear: under no circumstances should we take any steps that will undo the fiscal discipline that we have worked so hard to achieve and has been so central to our strong economy of the last five years.
The implications of Hurricane Katrina are clearly not positive for the Entergy enterprise, as the company's operations were the hardest hit of any electric utility system,
The longer we don't face them, the harder they get,
I'm sure that this will prove to be a phenomenon that is very complicated, involving tens or hundreds of genes.
The new $20 note will be an important tool against would-be counterfeiters,
I'm not going to get into the business of market prognostication,
I'm saying that we have significant concerns about significant portions ? of this, ... We need to work with Congress to work our way through that.
I had three criteria: I didn't want to be a CEO, I wanted to be involved with an institution I was proud of, and I wanted to be involved in an institution that was important to me,
I've got 11 fly rods and a lot of unread books.
As you look around the globe, it seems to me that a lot of the countries hurt by the Asian financial crises have made tremendous progress. On the other hand, in all of those countries there's a lot to do.
The international community has a strong program. ? I think the key, however, is that the program is only as effective as the implementation. And I think that we have been in a very aggressive mode over the course of the last year, and I think that what we need to do is remain in even more aggressive mode as we go forward, so each of us does our part,