Quotes About Chairman

I already was painfully aware that the Fed chairman's remarks can easily be misunderstood or overinterpreted.

now his not-so-secret ambition was to be chairman of the Fed after my departure.

I doubted that my words would have the weight of Greenspan's, and in any case it seemed to me that Congress is ruled first and foremost by interests and ideology, not by the advice of experts or supposed experts, including the chairman of the Fed.

The leadership of the Fed (especially the Chairman) must get aggressive.

In my own thinking, I tended to emphasize developments in broader economic indicators—the forest rather than the trees—but I appreciated that the chairman's approach could sometimes yield interesting insights that more standard analyses might miss.

What he had was unqualified support from heavy hitters including former Treasury secretaries Larry Summers and Bob Rubin, as well as the chairman of the New York Fed's board—Pete Peterson, a former commerce secretary under

I am not a lawyer or an expert on the Constitution. But as the chairman and CEO of a major health plan, I had a ringside seat to the entire health-care reform process.

I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.

I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.

I respect my father as a father, but I also respect him as an honorable chairman.

I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.

I've been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what we've done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution.

Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn.

Alan Greenspan is the worst Chairman of the Fed in history.

The sack is a sad fact of life for football managers. I have been axed three times. The chairman at Notts County was on record as saying it's the worst thing they ever did. Within a couple of years they were one game from losing league status.

terms of the specifics, you're going to be saying things like: "We're the number-one this … we're the fastest-growing that … we're the foremost experts in this … The chairman of the board, a man named so?and-so, is one of the most astute minds in the entire XYZ industry … He's accomplished X … he's accomplished Y … and he's built this company around one thing above all: [whatever that is].

the best way to honor Chairman Mao's memory was to see his face on as many hundred yuan notes as possible.

I wasn't able to do much reading when I was chairman of the Reserve Board. The workload was too large, and the luxury of reading was not available to me. So I caught up a good deal when I left office.

Alan Greenspan is going to go down in history as one of the worst Federal Reserve chairmen ever.

We get ourselves in trouble because it's a cheap way to get attention. Trouble is a faux form of fame. It's easier to get busted in the bedroom with the faculty chairman's wife than it is to finish that dissertation on the metaphysics of motley in the novellas of Joseph Conrad.

I'm very grateful and proud of the progress Yahoo! has made over the past year. When I took the position as chairman, I told the board that my intention was to serve for one year in order to help Yahoo! during a critical time of transformation.

Fostering transparency and accountability at the Federal Reserve was one of my principal objectives when I became Chairman in February 2006.

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.

Father is close, Mother is close, but neither is as close as Chairman Mao.