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

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.

A global economy requires a global currency.

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.

We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.

No one determines your truth but you.You can’t paint your own self-portrait with someone else’s hand.

I read the three Hunger Games books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote Just a Game.

The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.

This is one step along the road of moving away from a dollar peg and moving to a floating basket. This implies China will be accumulating dollars at a slower rate.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

I'm thrilled to get hired every once in a while.

I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.