Federal Reserve Chairman Quotes

#1. [On reporters trying to cajole a smile from her husband, Alan Greenspan:] For a Federal Reserve chairman, that was a smile.

Andrea Mitchell

#2. They should let my son be Federal Reserve chairman. At least he'll play with his toys and not ruin the economy.

Peter D. Schiff

#3. Even when [Federal Reserve Chairman Ben] Bernanke said the recession was over ... you think that would have been a bigger boom somewhere, but it seems we just take everything in stride.

Bill Maher

#4. If somebody had said to me in June or July of 1987, 'We'd like you to become chairman of the Federal Reserve, but you're never allowed to discuss any economics after you leave,' I'd have said, 'Forget it.' What do they want me to do? Become an anthropologist?'

Alan Greenspan

#5. If I'm sitting around exulting over traffic data, I'm an idiot.

Ezra Klein

#6. Fostering transparency and accountability at the Federal Reserve was one of my principal objectives when I became Chairman in February 2006.

Ben Bernanke

#7. Given cognitive vulnerabilities, it would be convenient to have an arrangement whereby reality could tell us off; and that is precisely what science is. Scientific methodology is the arrangement that allows reality to answer us back.

Rebecca Goldstein

#8. He knew a broken cat when he saw one; this was the end of Bluestar's leadership, even if he hadn't managed to take her last lives.

Erin Hunter

#9. Well, the chairman of Federal Reserve just made his move to rescue Barack Obama. We're gonna have QE3. We're gonna print some more money.

Rush Limbaugh

#10. Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.

Margaret Cho

#11. 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

#12. Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.

Sheryl Sandberg

#13. Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.

Seth Godin

#14. It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#15. All night long, in his cell, he burned with hatred. It did not matter what he thought, it was how he felt; and alone in the darkness of his cell, with the muttering noises of the tank around him, he felt like murdering the universe.

Don Carpenter

#16. Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the killer in you.

Stella Adler

#17. Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-87): The worst financial investment I ever made was spending so much time in government. The most satisfying personal investment I ever made was spending so much time in government, frustrating as it could be.

Anonymous