Political Quotes

Although monetary policy is working to promote a more robust recovery, it cannot carry the entire burden of ensuring a speedier return to economic health. The economy's performance both over the near term and the longer run will depend…

making derivatives safer is very important, part of solving Too Big to Fail and preventing another financial crisis.

I think it is consistent with our mandate and with our current policy to maintain price stability, and that is what we have been achieving.

The economy needed help from Congress--if not from additional spending (on roads and bridges for example), then at least in areas such as retraining unemployed workers.