Janet Yellen

Sanctions are a tool that can be very effective, and I pledge to work with you on implementing them.

He would want to repeal parts of the 2017 tax cuts that benefited the highest-income Americans and large companies.

I look forward to working with President-elect Biden and his team to build back better.

Yes, I commit to that.

We have to rebuild our economy so that it creates more prosperity for more people and ensures that American workers can compete in an increasingly competitive global economy.

As Treasury Secretary, I think there will be a dual mission too: helping Americans endure the final months of this pandemic and keeping people safe while getting them back to work.

But more must be done.

Our response must be too.

I would be concerned about capping it when we know the needs of the state and local governments alone come close to that.

Without congressional action, Americans will suffer, and the overall economy could degrade from its current slow rebound in growth to no growth at all.

Get the pandemic under control, and economic recovery will follow.

The spending is absolutely needed for more pain not to be extended throughout the economy

I am personally concerned about the U.S. debt situation.

I think these programs are deserving of emphasis and can be very successful.

I would urge you to remain focused on it.

This should be a very significant concern.

It shows a picture in which, as our population ages, expenditures on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security grow more rapidly than tax revenues.

I am very worried about the sustainability of the U.S. debt trajectory.

I would not want to see those things rolled back. I think it would be very dangerous to do so.

I think that Dodd-Frank provided an excellent roadmap to a series of changes that have led to a far safer and sounder banking system.

These are squarely, I think, in Congress' court, and I do think they are urgent to address.

I think it is quite important that in making fiscal policy and other decisions that the focus be on how can that be improved.

I am very disturbed and have spoken out for many years about the disturbing trend toward rising inequality.

We welcome strong growth. The Fed is not trying to stifle growth.

It is very important that the Federal Reserve... be allowed to make independent policy decisions that are shielded from short-term political pressure.