Quotes About Central Bankers

#1. The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.

Ben Bernanke

#2. Central bankers are not seers, not miracle workers. They are government employees.

Seth Lipsky

#3. I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.

Jack Welch

#4. Since World War II, inflation - the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services - has been the bane of central bankers.

Ben Bernanke

#5. Central bankers got it right in the United States in 1987 when they avoided deflationary pressures as well as serious trouble in the banking system.

Ben Bernanke

#6. Money is to an economy as nutrition is to the human body. When central bankers ignore that relationship by providing more capital that functionally needed, they debase everything capitalism stands for.

Said Elias Dawlabani

#7. Central Bankers are driving us to Hell in a vehicle We are paying the installments on

Dean Cavanagh

#8. We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.

Alan Greenspan

#9. Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

Alan Greenspan

#10. The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.

Robert M. Pirsig

#11. Whether as a radical student, a community organizer or a far left politician, Barack Obama's ideology has been based on a vision of the Haves versus the Have Nots ... Obama's ideology is an ideology of envy, resentment, and payback.

Thomas Sowell

#12. No central banker would disagree with the proposition that inflation is primarily a monetary phenomenon. Not one of them will disagree that every inflation has been accompanied by a rapid increase in the quantity of money and every deflation by a decline in the quantity of money.

Milton Friedman

#13. If you don't leave, I'll get somebody who will.

Raymond Chandler

#14. Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.

Tamsin Egerton

#15. The Congress has had an uneasy relationship with banks and bankers since Alexander Hamilton. It took the United States until 1913 to set up a central bank. The Federal Reserve earned its hard-won independence over years of effort.

Robert Zoellick

#16. The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not.

Robert A. Heinlein

#17. It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.

Epictetus

#18. How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people? ... Not only is he poisoning our air and water - he's poisoning our political system as well.

Barbra Streisand

#19. It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen.

Gayle Forman

#20. God expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part.

Oswald Chambers

#21. Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

Bill Parcells

#22. The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

Alan Blinder