20 Quotes by Stanley Fischer

It is in Israel's interests to avoid a collapse of the Palestinian economy.

represents a strong and appropriate response to overcome Russia's current difficulties.

We have a team arriving in Moscow at the end of next week that will have to look at the situation. Given what we know now about the changes in the exchange rate, the difficulties in the banking system and possible problems with the budget, it's clear the Russians will have to do quite a lot before that money can be released,

Unfortunately, the global economy seems to be depending totally on the U.S. at the moment.

Unfortunately, parliamentary backing has not been forthcoming for needed actions related to personal income tax, ... Nor have permanent measures to strengthen the pension fund.

We would have to renegotiate the monetary and fiscal program because Indonesia's economy has changed. Also, the exchange rate is way off from where we expected,

We are mindful of the potential tragic consequences of events taking place in Indonesia,

The recovery is not firmly in place. There is no reason to withdraw stimulus right now. The need is to make sure that the recovery in Japan is self-sustained -- and that means it's hard to see any good reason for monetary policy to tighten.

Some see it as a threat, some see it as an opportunity and some see it as inevitable,