Jerome Powell: “I do think that we see now the great benefits that a strong labor market can bring to, you know, right across the whole…”

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

If we move too quickly, then we may leave the inflation job unfinished and have to come back later and finish it.

I'm very focused on just doing my job.

I have a little more than 10 months left on my term as chair, and all I want, and all anyone at the Fed wants, is to deliver an economy that has price stability, maximum employment, financial stability.