Maximum Employment Quotes

The Federal Reserve is committed to fulfilling our statutory mandate of stable prices and maximum employment.

If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment.

I am strongly committed to pursuing the dual goals that Congress has assigned us: maximum employment and price stability.

The Congress has tasked the Federal Reserve with achieving stable prices and maximum employment - the dual mandate.

Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is committed to policies that promote maximum employment and price stability, consistent with our mandate from Congress.

The success of monetary policy should be judged by the economy's performance against our statutory mandates of price stability and maximum employment.

The Federal Reserve's objectives of maximum employment and price stability do not, by themselves, ensure a strong pace of economic growth or an improvement in living standards. The most important factor determining living standards is productivity growth, defined as increases in how much can be produced in an hour of work.

The Federal Reserve's monetary policy objective is to foster maximum employment and price stability. In this regard, a key challenge is to assess just how far the economy now stands from the attainment of its maximum employment goal.