Bill Clinton: “I do not think that Congress ought to send a message to the country that it is fine with us if this deplorable…”

They're going to try to rig the rules away, you know, so it hurt us and there's been some new innovative efforts in that regard, trying to rig the rules away from it. But you did well. We won in 2020.

You mean to tell me that the success of the program and my re-election hinges on the Federal Reserve and a bunch of fucking bond traders?

We've never seen anything like this before in my lifetime – somebody that says, 'Whatever I want should be the law of the land. It's my way or the highway.'

One of the hallmarks of our economic strategy has been a respect for the independence and the integrity of the Federal Reserve