Janet Yellen

I would see such a process as inhibiting our ability to take timely and necessary supervisory actions to address a firm's risk.

I have never seen the focus in regulation to be politicized at all.

I think the approach that we have currently that is in Dodd-Frank is quite adequate.

Private citizens can interact with Members of Congress--

I would welcome having it filled.

I completely agree with his assessment.

I strongly doubt that is our policy.

I pledge that we will try to be proactive in looking for--actively looking for ways that we can reduce burden.

We regard our emergency lending powers as very crucial powers.

It is important to the Fed to be able to put in place the supervision program that we regard as appropriate for a particular institution.

At present, every firm over $50 billion has to do things like supervisory stress testing...

I guess the reason I would be open to it is that... the costs exceed the benefits.

Our economy has made progress towards the Fed's objective of maximum employment.

We clearly want to see continued improvement in the labor market, and we want to do nothing that would threaten that.

For the vast majority of families, it's been a long time since they've seen a meaningful raise.

I would expect to see some further upward movement.

It is very important for there to be a long-term debt requirement.

My own preference would be to be able to proceed to tighten in a prudent and gradual manner...

I look forward to working with you and the Committee.

So I would push back against the notion that we are unduly affected by the ups and downs of the stock market.

I would be concerned about something that was a large fiscal shift.

We are certainly trying to put in place a set of incentives that will reduce the systemic footprint and risk of firms.

The results were predictable--incomes grew at the very top, but stagnated for everyone else.

So like Governor Tarullo, I would be open to a modest increase in the threshold.

At the same time, inflation is very low, and while we have indicated that a good share of that is for reasons we believe will be transitory...