Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Rosenberg

This would provide the Fed some flexibility regarding future meetings.

The question is whether it would do that on it's own and the Fed seems to be telling us they don't think so.

George H. W. Bush

to understand the relationship that the federal government's role is to support state and local governments.

tough federal and state laws should be enacted to prohibit predatory lending.

Well, I think the Federal Reserve has pretty much talked itself into another 1/4 point move on the Federal funds rate.

Steve Largent

People say, 'I'm for job training. We can train people to increase the likelihood that they can be self-sufficient.' Okay, that's great, you're for job training - I like job training - but do you think the federal government should have 163 different job-training programs?

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.

Bernie Sanders

The Federal Reserve has the responsibility to protect the credit rights of consumers.

We are just fed up. And we know we haven't fought like the other side of the island ? the Windward side ? and now we're going to fight like them. Just because we've been so nice and accommodating, they're just dumping everything on us.

We're eliminating the nonsense. I'm fed up. I'm sick of losing at home and playing terrible basketball. Nonsense is always a distraction.

We shouldn't have to wait for state or federal indictments to get rid of Jim Black.

David Hoffman

We shouldn't be getting in the way (of the federal probe), but we shouldn't be narrow-minded about what it means to have an overlapping investigation,

Fay Vincent

The players are protected under the federal statutes. That's a mistake a lot of people have made, thinking the commissioner can do whatever he wants. His powers over the players are very limited.

While inflation remains tame, inflationary pressures keep building. Thus, the Fed can't let its guard down.

With so many new members, it's hard to say whether the rhetoric the Fed has been using until now will stay the same.

Jerry Butler

Undoubtedly, mosquitoes have preferences. People do differ, and in any group of 10, one person will be fed on more than others.

Gary Johnson

I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.

Alcee Hastings

Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years.

I don't think the federal government should be involved in making life work, right? I mean, the enumerated powers - the state level is fine. The local level's fine. But not - I do not want the federal government trying to make my life work.

Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing.

Bob Ross

I was the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work. The job requires you to be a mean, tough person. And I was fed up with it. I promised myself that if I ever got away from it, it wasn't going to be that way any more.

This really puts the spotlight very acutely on the Fed minutes this afternoon.

Elena Dementieva

The players want to help raise the profile of Fed Cup, and I am looking forward to making my own suggestion for the look of the court.

There are less funds from the federal government.

This whole thing is, everybody's waiting for Friday. People are worried about the Fed raising rates.

Brian McDonald

We think that federal law trumps what's in state law. You would not have to put this to a vote.

We're not interested in Treasuries because the Fed will probably raise rates two more times this quarter. That means yields have room to rise from here, which is why we are staying away for now.

We think the states and the federal government now have a joint solution.

We think the rally in Nasdaq over the past two weeks is really a relief rally. The relief is they don't think the Fed has to go any further.

David Thwaites

We think the Fed will probably move in the summer, in the third quarter.

We think the Fed will keep going to 5 percent by May.