A global economy requires a global currency.

The only thing useful banks have invented in 20 years is the ATM.

The standard of living of the average American has to decline.

I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.

It was probably a mistake to allow gold to rise so high.

When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do.

When I hear complaints about less liquidity, remember there is such a thing as too much liquidity.

Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed.

I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy.

It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had.

If, at the end of the day, we need to raise taxes, we should raise taxes.

It wasn't normal, it was quite far from normal, but they were hers and she loved everything about them.

No matter how far apart we may be, no matter what dreams we may chase after individually, I want you to know that you will always be my first priority. I will always, always love you.

The harder the struggle, the bigger the gain. The important thing is to stick with it, repetitively and consistently.

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

I like a mysterious man. I like a man who reads and is knowledgeable about the world, but who doesn’t have to brag about it.

A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.

There are no super saints, only those that don't quit.

I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.