“The Fed is totally open.”

The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.

I come from Main Street, from a small town that’s really depressed.

Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective.

I don’t see much evidence of an equity bubble.

Education – lifelong education for everyone – from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers – is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.

The impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime markets seems likely to be contained.

Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly.

If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won’t bring you much satisfaction.

Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.

Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn’t dirty, you haven’t been in the game.

September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.

The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.

In a manner as nearly consistent as possible with full utilization of economic resources and low and stable inflation. In other words, the best way to get out of trouble is not to get into it in the first place.

Both humanity’s capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.

As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.

If I had a horse of my own that I loved and fed and knew me, it would be amazing.

I’m fed up with the idiots… the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.

There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.

My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.

People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.

Energy has to be fed from a source. If you don’t feed the source, it dissipates entirely.