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It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

Ben Bernanke

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It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.

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

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

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

Nobody really understands gold prices and I don't pretend to understand them either.

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.

The sources of deflation are not a mystery. Deflation is in almost all cases a side effect of a collapse of aggregate demand.. a drop in spending so severe that producers must cut prices on an ongoing basis in order to find buyers.

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.

I am very proud of my nerd-dom.

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

The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of countervailing monetary policy action to further upward pressure on inflation.

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.

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.

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

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.

One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.

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