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

Ben Bernanke

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The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have - great universities. We have entrepreneurs.

Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.

Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow.

The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.

To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.

Life is amazingly unpredictable any 22-year-old who thinks they know where they will be in 10 years, much less in 30, is simply lacking imagination.

Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.

The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.

I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.

If you are asking me if I would advocate that the Chinese go to greater flexibility in their exchange rate, I certainly would.

I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.

The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.

A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money.

Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.