Ben Bernanke: “Congress, I hope, has the foresight to see that interest rates will not be this low forever.”

Right now our concern is that the Chinese currency policy is blocking what might be a more normal recovery process in the global economy, and it is to an extent hurting our recovery.

Banks are not going to lend out the reserves at a rate lower than they can earn at the Fed.

the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.

Our goals are Main Street, our goals are jobs, our goals are low inflation.