We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.

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.

God will help you if you try and you can if you think you can.

I'd start a business again in a heartbeat. Indeed, I hope that one day I may get the chance to do so when my mission here in Washington, D.C. is complete.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

We live in a time of unprecedented abundance.

I'm one of the people that when I wake up I have to do what I do. It's not like I want to do it. I kind of have to do it.

... laughter is lovelier than tears in bed.

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

PURPOSE is spirit seeking expression.

Dark matter and dark energy are two things we measure in the universe that are making things happen, and we have no idea what the cause is.

I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.