The one thing people don't appreciate, I think, is that…

When you own gold you're fighting every central bank in the world. That's because gold is a currency that competes with government currencies and…

— James Rickards

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

— Ron Paul

Each central banksought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic…

— Carroll Quigley

In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

In the U.A.E. we were the least-regulated environment in the region, and over time we are seeing more and more regulation coming in. On…

— Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

Central banking often comes across as obscure and complicated, and we try to help the public understand what we do.

— Jerome Powell

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

— Will Rogers

Community development has a long history of innovation and learning from experience.

— Ben Bernanke

The movement toward a holistic approach to community development has been long in the making, but the housing crisis has motivated further progress.

— Ben Bernanke

Clear communication is always important in central banking, but it can be especially important when economic conditions call for further policy stimulus but the…

— Ben Bernanke

Central bankers got it right in the United States in 1987 when they avoided deflationary pressures as well as serious trouble in the banking system.

— Ben Bernanke

“Every major war in American history, except the Mexican and Spanish-American, has either led to central banking or resulted from it. Central banking and…

— Mark David Ledbetter

“However, after several false starts and with the lessons of history fading, America, too, would finally create a permanent central bank, in 1914. For…

— Mark David Ledbetter

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.

— Thomas Jefferson

War has generally had grave and fateful consequences for the American monetary and financial system. We have seen that the Revolutionary War occasioned a…

— Murray Rothbard