589 Quotes by Alan Greenspan

The changes in the budget outlook over the past several years are truly remarkable, ... We need to resist those policies that could readily resurrect the deficits of the past and the fiscal imbalances that followed in their wake.

It is risky, ... It's risky doing nothing. It's risky doing any other solution. ... I know no way to resolve this without risk.

I find it utterly inconceivable, frankly, that we can have the type of potential fiscal outlook, which now confronts us over the next 15 to 20 years which, unless addressed, will not have a significant impact on long-term interest rates,

There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.

I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.

For Hong Kong and Singapore, in fact, they have been able to realize the size of economy.

the recent surge in energy prices will undoubtedly be a drag (on the economy) from now on.

The chances of an inflationary breakout arguably are, at least for now, less than they would have been under similar conditions in earlier cycles.

I find it difficult to find rational arguments for that particular initiative,