My view was that government officials could not sit on the…

As a former economy minister, I can't not think about economic growth. The central bank should also think about this but through its own…

— Elvira Nabiullina

Monetary policy transmission encompasses the whole continuum of interest rates; of course, the central bank only determines the overnight policy rate.

— Urjit Patel

If the public understands the central bank's views on the economy and monetary policy, then households and businesses will take those views into account…

— Jerome Powell

If a debt crisis results from government profligacy and mismanagement, rather than from a market failure, it is true that the central bank should…

— Gita Gopinath

I have always thought and I still think that the Central Bank should act independently. Indeed, it does, you can take my word. I…

— Vladimir Putin

If progressives take over the central bank, they will have power beyond their wildest dreams to advance their destructive ideological agenda through economic policy…

— Miranda Devine

There is always the potential for a central bank to engage in discretionary monetary policy and to break the one-to-one link between changes in…

— Steve Hanke

The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.

— Ben Bernanke

Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquidity planning by major financial firms pose for the broader financial…

— Ben Bernanke

I think we do need to try to not just rely on the central bank to, in its wisdom, adjust interest rates, but allow…

— Robert J. Shiller

The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants…

— Ben Bernanke

The best way that a central bank can support growth on a durable basis is to ensure inflation is low, stable - there is…

— Urjit Patel

We've delegated politics to bankers. The European Central Bank is inside Deutsche Bank, and Deutsche Bank is inside the Bundesbank.

— Beppe Grillo

The principle that a central bank, charged with controlling inflation, should be independent from the government is unassailable. It may also be true that…

— Janet Yellen

There's no doubt that decisions made by the leading central banks do affect the global financial markets and, consequently, our situation.

— Elvira Nabiullina