Quotes About Ben

Will: I read your book last night. Sean: So you're the one.

While the tales were most like only tales, none could doubt the truth of the riddle.

Before it was anything else, the doctrine of progress was a theory of white supremacy.

Thompson was, by all accounts, a confident man, and not one to be inconvenienced by ignorance if it happened

Ursula K. Le Guin: "One of our finest methods of organized forgetting is called discovery.")

Those that merely talk and never think,That live in the wild anarchy of drink.

There was a long silence as we swam around in the strange currents of Dad's words.

Nobody bought into that philosophy more than WaMu

market participants grew even more concerned that the Fed wasn't being proactive enough.

I said that best practices in monetary policy had evolved during the Greenspan years and would continue to evolve. But

And I appreciated the crucial role her agency played in the regulatory system.

AGAIN I went through the vetting process, including even more extensive questioning by the FBI.

We talked for hours. It was the start of a long and fruitful collaboration and friendship.

Hank's lifetime of contacts in the financial services industry came in handy here.

asking them to refrain from media interviews.

we didn't like to be dependent on Treasury's help in setting monetary policy.

My assignment to the consumer committee reflected my lack of seniority, but I didn't object.

These principles should be more broadly applied in Washington.

Paul still carried considerable influence in policy circles,

Tim was the Fed's principal contact with Fuld.

I didn't want to influence his choice too much, since my support for any one candidate could easily be misrepresented as opposition to another.

To me, the need for continuing with these purchases remained clear.

But the vote didn't capture the extent of the concern and skepticism on the Committee.

He too greeted me warmly and praised the Fed's response to the crisis.