I'm A Plain Soap Kind Of Guy.

If We Are To Remain Preeminent In Transforming Knowledge Into Economic Value, America's System Of Higher Education Must Remain The World's Leader In Generating Scientific And Technological Breakthrough, And In Meeting The Challenge To Educate Workers.

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.

...our Market System Depends Critically On Trust-trust In The Word Of Our Colleagues And Trust In The Word Of Those With Whom We Do Business.

People Dont Realize That We Cannot Forecast The Future. What We Can Do Is Have Probabilities Of What Causes What, But Thats As Far As We Go. And Ive Had A Very Successful Career As A Forecaster, Starting In 1948 Forward. The Number Of Mistakes I Have Made Are Just Awesome. There Is No Number Large Enough To Account For That.

But Rules Cannot Substitute For Character.