Jerome Powell: “climate change is going to be a very important issue for a long time, and it needs to be addressed principally by…”

the outlook for employment and inflation does not appear to have changed much since our September meeting

What keeps me awake at night is how do we get that done? I want to hand over to my successor an economy in good shape, and so do all of my colleagues, that's all we ever want.

It is a big risk to our independence if we were to stray into areas where we shouldn’t that really aren’t part of our mandate.

If any administration finds a way to remove Fed officials over policy differences, then future administrations will do so as well.