Ben Bernanke Quotes

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

If my house is on fire, I don't need the fire chief telling me I should not have built the house out of wood. I need somebody to put the fire out.

I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.

I am used to playing with fire. Somebody has to do it.

I always had a pretty serious fascination with fire. Luckily I'm not an arsonist!

You wait until the forest fire is on your front step before you step up.

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.

In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories.

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.

I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire.

When your house is on fire—that is not the time to talk

When I was 6 years old, we were lighting firecrackers in the backyard and started a fire. My brother ran out and was pulling water from the creek and pouring it on the fire with a 7-Eleven Big Gulp cup.

When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack you don't worry about losing a Pawn on the Queen's side

Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.

Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were.

I burned down my backyard as a seven-year-old. I poured kerosene over dried leaves and set the whole place on fire, just for fun. Yeah, not a very normal thing to do.

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

Fire is our first form of technology.

I'm fascinated by fire. When I was four, I wore an American fireman's hat all the time, and I still have one in my office today. Glasgow used to be called 'Tinderbox City;' there were always fires, people getting killed.

But I think the bottom line right now is to take the constructive criticism and use that to build toward, as I say, the hurricane season that is 100 days away. And we don't have a lot of time to waste before we start to address that next set of challenges.

Firefighters go where they're needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.