Ben Bernanke Quotes

We are currently gradually stabilizing our economy.

In the Netherlands, we have had a difficult year and we are now getting out of this difficulty. So we have now growth prospects for 2014.

Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the nation has had 29 straight months of job growth. Workers across my state and across the country are getting back the dignity of a good job and a good salary.

History has demonstrated time and again the inherent resilience and recuperative powers of the American economy.

Our economy isn't going to recover until the housing market finds its footing.

It always looks dark at the bottom of a recovery.

I think we can create an environment where America can kind of get back on its economic feet.

I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.

If you look at 2009, why did the recovery happen? Recovery happened because somebody in the world's largest economy opened the tap: the U.S., followed by Europe and now Japan.

The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.

And we've given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and about how we live our life. And so, the election, again, will not be decided on that. It will be decided on who is gonna turn the economy around and how are jobs gonna come back to America.

New York never felt the recession. New York never felt a depression.

We should remember it wasn't so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply.

As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.

I want to see the economy rebound.

Our first goal is to stop the recession and start with recovery.

If anyone will study the causes of retarded recuperation in Europe, he will find much of it due to stifling of private initiative on one hand, and overloading of the government with business on the other.

This great country cannot be permanently kept in a state of relapse. I believe we will reoccupy the field temporarily lost to us, and go out to the peaceful conquest of new and greater fields of trade and commerce. The recovery will come slowly, perhaps, but it will come, and when it does we will be steadier and will better know how to avoid exposure hereafter.

I want to change Italy and get the economy back on track.

When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.

The economy is most important. It is off track.

The fact is, we'll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before.

Keep in mind that, when I came in, we had had a crisis that was the worst we've seen since the 1930s, and working with people like Chancellor Merkel, working with the G-20 and other institutions internationally, we were able to stabilize the financial system, stabilize the US economy and return to growth.

[Obama White House] rescued the economy from the worst recession.

The most essential factor to economic recovery today [1932] is the restoration of confidence.