Famous Quotes & Sayings

I suspect that on Fed decisions, the president has been very much influenced by Mr. Greenspan. Greenspan and Cheney go back.

I think it kind of lifted our team up and we fed off his energy.

I think it got to the point where we just got fed up. It was a gut check.

Barack Obama

I also think the media's presence simply raised the question: If the media could get to these places, why couldn't the federal government?

He didn't look too stressed about it, so we just kind of fed off him. I talked with him a little bit. I knew.

He didn't give the impression that the Fed is panicking.

Gary Sheffield

The rage was in me, and if it wasn't for the rage, then I wouldn't know how to be calm. They feed off of each other. Just like when Malcolm X fed off Martin Luther King. They needed each other.

This was a good, constructive quarter. The market overcame two problem areas: the Fed raising interest rates and high oil prices.

It is going to be a piecemeal approach, people are not going to know what their regulatory commitments are from one state to another. And you are then going to have different product standards in different states. It just doesn't make sense. We need a federal policy and that is what we are trying to promote.

It is going to be a Fed week. The market is 100 percent in sync with a quarter of a percentage point rise for Fed fund rates at 4.75 percent.

There is enough strength in this report to suggest at least one more hike from the Fed and possibly more.

We've been wanting him to do that since Day 1. I think he was fed up.

Alex Jones

I know this, the Federal Reserve is private and the I.R.S. is screwing us.

I think we're going to have a slower recovery, ... There are other things that suggest there are limits to what the Fed can do.

I think we have some lessons to learn from the past week, realizing the federal government is not going to come to our rescue in the first 72 hours,

I think we will see growth of 150,000 or 200,000 jobs per month by the spring. But we still have some structural issues in the labor market to work through, and the Fed wants to see a number of good months before they'll think about raising rates.

It is never a happy day for the Fed when GDP is revised down and inflation is revised up.

It is madness that the federal government is still spending millions on teaching middle-aged bureaucrats how to pass language tests rather than sending young, enthusiastic recruits to the public service to work in another language and culture.

I will not support putting the responsibility of the plan in the hands of the federal government.

He's been very clear. The Fed may take a pause for a month or two, but that doesn't mean it's the end of the rate hikes.

There are observances of the occasion occurring at the Fed on a modest scale. I'm not surprised that there isn't anything more.

I have cooperated fully with the federal investigation for the past three years because I have nothing to hide.

Robert Taylor

I don't know what they think going federal is going to do for the local people. It's actually going to do nothing.

I don't know what the guy is going to say tomorrow, but like everyone else I am going to be listening closely, ... I tend to think that this (CPI) number should have quieted down a lot of the sentiment about the likelihood or the need for a Fed tightening move.

I don't know what constitutes a nuisance bar, but I'd think this would. We're fed up.

Steve Bruce

I do not want to give Robbie Savage any more publicity. I am fed up to the back teeth with him.

I'd be happy to have the federal government join us in the prosecution.

He is keeping his options open, but he also is suggesting that we may not see a straight-line path for interest rates. I think he is trying to knock down the notion that the Fed could come to a stop and that the story will end there.

Warren Buffett

The Fed is the greatest hedge fund in history.

Our company, and really the gaming industry as a whole, complies with federal law on hiring.

Other states rely much more heavily on their state government and the federal government to come in and manage the support. In California, emergencies are managed on the local level.

Right now our two U.S. Senators and our U.S. Congressman are all over the place in terms of what they're thinking and how they're voting on this issue. So, I would really like to see our Federal Government representation get on the same page.

Ben Bernanke

Roger made invaluable contributions to the Federal Reserve and to the country.