"the objective of our policy is to broadly benefit all Americans, especially those who were seeing harm come to them"
"I strongly believe that monetary policy is most effective when the public understands what the Fed is trying to do."
"I would argue that we cannot have normal rates unless the economy is normal."
"We are certainly trying to be faithful to the intent of this rule, which is to eliminate short-term financial speculation in institutions that enjoy the protection of the safety net."
"I think it is important for Congress to recognize that as the economy recovers and both short- and long-term rates move up, a situation in which the Government's funding costs remain as low as they ar..."
"Broader measures of unemployment are much higher."
"I think we have a much safer and sounder financial system than we had pre-crisis, but as I indicated, we need to do more."
"We are involved in a very comprehensive review of commodities activities in financial holding companies."
"no one who lived through that financial crisis would ever want to risk another one that could subject the economy to what we are painfully going through and recovering from."
"We have had widening wage inequality and income inequality in this country going back to the mid- to late-1980s, and that continues."
"Dodd-Frank put into place an agenda that... should make a very meaningful difference in terms of too big to fail."