I'm very focused on just doing my job.

As long as the U.S. economy is in solid shape, the prudent thing to do is to wait and learn more and see what the effect might be.

I want to hand over to my successor an economy in good shape.

Everyone that I know is forecasting a meaningful increase in inflation in coming months from tariffs.

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.

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

The U.S. economy is in solid shape.

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.

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.

As long as the economy is in solid shape, we think the prudent thing to do is to wait and see what those effects might be.

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

In effect, we went on hold when we saw the size of the tariffs, and essentially all inflation forecasts for the United States went up materially as a consequence of the tariffs.