Alan Greenspan Quotes

You can't entirely compare between the United States and Greece for a range of reasons, not just because of the size of the economy.

America is so large and so diverse that it is overwhelming, but my first impressions are favorable.

America is huge.

The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.

An economy may be in equilibrium from a short-period point of view and yet contain within itself incompatibilities that are soon going to knock it out of equilibrium.

Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.

At the center of every recession is a serious imbalance in the economy and mirrored in the financial system. Think subprime mortgage and the Great Recession, or the technology bubble and the early 2000s recession. There are no such imbalances today.

Our country's economy is strong, diversified, and resilient.

Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.

Market prices are always wrong.

[In] the United States, we've always been held together by the belief that it doesn't matter where you came from. It matters where you're going.

Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.

We own the Federal Reserve. There is this misconception that the Federal Reserve is some private entity. But if I might give an analogy here, we - U.S. taxpayers - own all the stock in the Federal Reserve.

One size NEVER fits all. One size fits one. Period

The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals the Nile. We have the greatest cities in the world - among the greatest cities in the world. We have a large population. We have challenges. We have an indigenous population.

When the economy was going up, [Milton Friedman and I] both gave the same advice, and when the economy was going down, we gave the same advice. But in between he didn't change his advice at all.

There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States.

The United States, we know what happens when we start dividing ourselves along lines of race or religion or ethnicity.

I really like the United State, its relationship to space and time, its interest in mobility, its cosmopolitanism.

The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.

You know I'm a firm believer that women come in all shapes and all sizes and you know certain people like certain things. It's all good, whether it's big, small, whatever.

America is a miracle country.

I have a map of the united states .... it's original size ... it says one mile equals one mile.

We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated.

In five years, you're going to be blown away by the strength and diversity of Michigan's transformed economy.