If I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The problem is you cannot have free global trade with highly restrictive, regulated domestic markets. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
When you go back and look at American history, it's not terribly different from Canadian history. If you weren't self-reliant on the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I get so engaged when I have a problem you cannot solve that I just cannot break away from what I am… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think the whole issue of a debt ceiling makes no sense to me whatsoever. Anybody who is remotely adroit at arithmetic… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Manufacturing capacity is not a rigid level against which one bounces. When you are dealing with a world economy, with a flexibility… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
One of the problems with hedge funds is that they are changing so rapidly. If you have the balance sheet that closed… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
What I see in the corporate sector is very clearly an issue of a major shortfall in the issue of, what some… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The only way you get economic progress, real standards of living moving higher, is to have the savings of the society continuously… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I've been around long enough to know that a good deal of the praise heaped on me I had nothing to do… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
If somebody had said to me in June or July of 1987, 'We'd like you to become chairman of the Federal Reserve,… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share
...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share
It's hard to overemphasize how important Ford's deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share
