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

Ben Bernanke

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

Speaking as somebody who has been happily married for 35 years, I can't imagine any choice more consequential for a lifelong journey than the choice of a traveling companion.

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

I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex and difficult to predict.

The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.

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

It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.

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.

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

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 the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.

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.

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.

The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.