Jerome Powell: “We want to put--we want people to get back to work, and there are a lot of people who are not back to work yet.”

I won’t bow to political pressure when it comes to setting monetary policy.

If we move too slowly, there may be unnecessary losses, painful losses in the employment market.

We're trying to deliver macro stability, financial stability, economic stability for the benefit of all the people.

When you significantly slow the growth of the labor force, you will slow the growth of the economy.