Jerome Powell: “the longest in our history.”

If we're going to do that successfully, we need to do it in a completely nonpolitical way, which means we don't take sides, we don't play one side against the other, we stay out of issues that are really not our bailiwick.

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.

Stopping sooner could have made some difference, but not likely enough to fundamentally alter the trajectory of the economy

There are no new water features, there’s no beehives, and there’s no roof terrace gardens