"I think it is in the public interest that we have an unfettered debate within the Open Market Committee..."
"I am a believer that interest rates, like prices, should be set by the marketplace."
"Of course, you know, without an audit we never know."
"I believe if we continue to do these things, continue to have stimulus packages and deficits, we are going to have crippling inflation."
"A lot of us think of independence--we put another word in there automatically, that means 'secret' and 'clandestine' and 'serving special interests.'"
"There is a strong argument now that the more we know about what has been going on in this last year, the more it would have helped the markets."
"They don't want to make it a political football."
"Now it sounded to me like the majority here is for independence, which is a code word for secrecy and in opposition to transparency."
"The Fed is a government unto itself. You know, they hire and make their wages and it doesn't go through the ordinary process."
"We need to end the bailouts in which the Fed has been instrumental, I think, in carrying out over the last 18 months."
"We just want to know what is going on and why and the discussions."