Ben Bernanke: “I think getting rid of too big to fail is an incredibly important objective and we are working in that direction.”

the unemployment rate right now is not a very good measure by itself of the economy.

Finding a way to deal with that issue I think is the most challenging part but has the biggest payoff.

monetary policy is not a panacea, so there is still plenty of room for Congress to address some of these problems

Congress did not intend for the Federal regulators to discard the State risk-based capital system in favor of a banking capital regime.