Fed Chairman Quotes

#1. It's hard to overstate how utterly mad it is for a Fed chairman in the age of the global economy to claim that a weak currency only affects tourists. It's a little bit like saying a forest fire only really sucks if you're a woodpecker.

Matt Taibbi

#2. Anything the Austrians could do, the Prussians could do better.

Timothy C.W. Blanning

#3. When I was seven I believed in God so I told Him I was sorry about kicking my sister and to "please not condemn me to eternal suffering in the interminable fires of Perdition for my transgressions.

Emma Rose Kraus

#4. There's no other job in public life that is like chairman of the Fed.

Alan Greenspan

#5. Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed.

Paul A. Volcker

#6. You are always going to get extreme views around coaches and players.

Rob Andrew

#7. Mr. Chairman, when the Fed was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world system was being set up here ... and that this country was to supply the financial power to an international superstate.

Louis Thomas McFadden

#8. The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.

Tim Ferriss

#9. I was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. As you know, there are twelve banks and they have their citizens board, and I got elected to the Fed Chairmanship for the Federal Reserve Kansas City Bank back in the mid-'90s. It might have been 1995-'96.

Herman Cain

#10. Is this how governments are made? Forcing decisions on wounded people in the middle of the night?

Robert Jackson Bennett