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

Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.

It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.

The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost.

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

Monetary policy is not a panacea.

Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.

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

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.

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

Four days will quickly steep themselves in nightsFour nights will quickly dream away the time.

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.

I know my limitations. I know I'm not perfect. I know what I know, but more importantly, I know what I don't know. When I don't know something, I surround myself with people I can trust to teach me.

Amsterdam is not Holland. It is a city that attracts people from all over Holland. And lots of international tourists and party people.

For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.

The day I feel like I'm at an office job is the day I'll quit performing in front of a camera.

The truth isn't all things to all people all of the time.

There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching.