I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.

We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.

It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

I generally leave the details of fiscal programs to the Administration and Congress. That's really their area of authority and responsibility, and I don't think it's appropriate for me to second guess.

The GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing.

The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.