At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America's system of higher education must remain the world's leader… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn't exist' - 'The only effective regulation lies in the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
At the outset of the creation of the euro in 1999, it was expected that the southern eurozone economies would behave like those in… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
