It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had.

The only thing useful banks have invented in 20 years is the ATM.

The standard of living of the average American has to decline.

I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.

It was probably a mistake to allow gold to rise so high.

When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do.

When I hear complaints about less liquidity, remember there is such a thing as too much liquidity.

A global economy requires a global currency.

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.

I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy.

If, at the end of the day, we need to raise taxes, we should raise taxes.

God created every heart, every person for relationship.

I stole their future from them

There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, Where the dear Lord was crucified, Who died to save us all.

Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.

I'm trapped inside of me and I don't go out at all. I go to bed at eight o'clock at night. I never go out during the week. I'm in psychotherapy four days a week, pretty heavy commitment to it.

It is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run most in that channel, that as sin bred grief, so grief may consume sin.

I don't think many people will remember me when I retire.

I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.

If you build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency.