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

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.

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.

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

You might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”, and I will say "watch me".

But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I'm willing to myself.

I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you in the head. It is just you and the rock base.

And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive.

What happened?" -Ethon "Obviously something was hungry and bit the bear." -Kali

In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.

My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.

I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years.

We must re-center philosophy within our frame of reference which I think is the way to deal with it.

I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.