589 Quotes by Alan Greenspan

Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I'm only half joking

Rules cannot take the place of character.

Large deficits will result in rising interest rates and an ever-growing ratio of debt service to GDP (gross domestic product),

the possibility that the forces from Asia might damp activity and prices by more than is desirable.

There should be little disagreement about the need to re-establish budget discipline,

I'm sorry I used that term. It's one which does suggest a froth in the market place. I would hesitate to use it in today's context.

The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.

We are seeing an evolving new international economy. We are in the process of learning how it works as we are doing it, ... Fortunately, the trauma that came out of the Russian default created so much risk aversion ... we probably have time to be deliberative in determining how the (international monetary) structure ought to be structured.

Our judgment is that the level of consumption growth...will slow down, and the dramatic expansion in capital investment will slow down, ... Something will eventually change the pattern, but there are a number of different ways that can happen.