Quotes from Paul Singer

America is a place where the freedom to be who you are shouldn't be a barrier to your ability to get a job and provide for your family.

While many of Mr. Obama's ideas warrant skepticism, conservative opposition to any expanded role for government is a mistake.

Resentment is not morally superior to earning money.

The building block of every community is family.

Capital is kind of a banking concept.

'Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., yet political leaders do not even bother to consider that their own policies, which put the entire burden on central bankers to print money and drive up stock, bond and other asset prices, are actually exacerbating income and wealth disparity.

Imagine how much capital a country like Argentina might attract - if instead of defaulting seriatim and affecting a pose of anger toward creditors, it borrowed responsibly and honored its obligations.

Margin is a customer concept.

Governments need to be authorized to provide 'open bank assistance.' The convolutions of Dodd-Frank aimed at 'avoiding' this tactic are ludicrous and will prove to be extremely costly to the system.

You have got to welcome and embrace complexity.

A great deal of stupidity has chipped away at the massive advantages of Western civilization, which could terminally decline if it remains on the current path. But these problems can be solved - and swiftly - if the right leaders emerge.

It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting from the passions and whims of the government rather than from the law, just because they have the power to do so.

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

The bottom line is that the euro is a failed experiment.

My concern as a citizen and as a money manager is, Oh my God, at what point does a 'whoa' moment happen to these people who own $30 trillion fixed income instruments?

There is no more reason to believe that Bitcoin will stand the test of time than that governments will protect the value of government-created money, although Bitcoin is newer, and we always look at babies with hope.

In government, the forces of risk-aversion and constant conflict serve to stultify and narrow the range of ideas up for debate.

I'm rarely optimistic.

I've never let my guard down by saying, 'I don't need to be hedged.'

If you want an alternative currency, check out gold. It has stood the test of thousands of years as a store of value and medium of exchange.

There is no safe haven in today's markets.

Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.

The world, in terms of choices available to educated, ambitious workers and entrepreneurs, is way bigger than just the United States, Japan and Europe.

In the workplace, employees should be judged on their merit and hard work and not on aspects that are irrelevant to their performance.